CVE-2003-0465

CVE-2003-0465 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:N/AC:L/AU:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

The kernel strncpy function in Linux 2.4 and 2.5 does not %NUL pad the buffer on architectures other than x86, as opposed to the expected behavior of strncpy as implemented in libc, which could lead to information leaks.

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