CVE-2009-2910

CVE-2009-2910 · LOW Severity

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

arch/x86/ia32/ia32entry.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.31.4 on the x86_64 platform does not clear certain kernel registers before a return to user mode, which allows local users to read register values from an earlier process by switching an ia32 process to 64-bit mode.

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