CVE-2008-2729

CVE-2008-2729 · MEDIUM Severity

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

arch/x86_64/lib/copy_user.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 on some AMD64 systems does not erase destination memory locations after an exception during kernel memory copy, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

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