Uninitialized Extent Race Condition Vulnerability in Linux Kernel

CVE-2012-4508 · LOW Severity

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

Race condition in fs/ext4/extents.c in the Linux kernel before 3.4.16 allows local users to obtain sensitive information from a deleted file by reading an extent that was not properly marked as uninitialized.

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