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CVE-2008-2729

CVE-2008-2729

EPSS 0.6%
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.
Affected products
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References
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commitdiff%3Bh=3022d734a54cbd2b65eea9a024564821101b4a9a%3Bhp=f0f4c3432e5e1087b3a8c0e6bd4113d3c37497ffhttp://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2008-0508.htmlhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=451271http://secunia.com/advisories/30849http://secunia.com/advisories/30850http://secunia.com/advisories/31107http://secunia.com/advisories/31551http://secunia.com/advisories/31628https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/43558https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A11571http://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1630http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2008:174