CVE-2004-0177

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 8
Modified
Published: 16 Apr 2004, 04:00
Last modified:08 Aug 2024, 00:10

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
low
20/100
CVSS Score
5 MEDIUM
v2.0 (nvd)
EPSS Score
1.77% LOW
2% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
None found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

16 Apr 2004, 04:00
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
08 Aug 2024, 00:10
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

The ext3 code in Linux 2.4.x before 2.4.26 does not properly initialize journal descriptor blocks, which causes an information leak in which in-memory data is written to the device for the ext3 file system, which allows privileged users to obtain portions of kernel memory by reading the raw device.

CVSS Metrics

  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 5AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 1.77%• Percentile: 83%

Affected Systems

  • linux•linux_kernel

    2.4.0

References (24)