CVE-2004-2607

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 1

Downstream

DSA-1018-1

Modified

Published: 03 Dec 2005, 00:00

Last modified:08 Aug 2024, 01:36

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)

low

18/100

CVSS Score

2.1 LOW

v2.0 (nvd)

EPSS Score

0.06% LOW

0% probability 0.00%

KEV

Not listed

Ransomware

No reports

Public exploits

1 found

Dark Web

Not detected

Timeline

03 Dec 2005, 00:00

Published

Vulnerability first disclosed

08 Aug 2024, 01:36

Last Modified

Vulnerability information updated

Description

A numeric casting discrepancy in sdla_xfer in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.5 and 2.4 up to 2.4.29-rc1 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory via a large len argument, which is received as an int but cast to a short, which prevents a read loop from filling a buffer.

CVSS Metrics

v2.0•LOW•Score: 2.1AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.06%• Percentile: 20%

Affected Systems

linux•linux_kernel
2.4.0:test1 | 2.4.0:test10 | 2.4.0:test11 | 2.4.0:test12 | 2.4.0:test2 | 2.4.0:test3 | 2.4.0:test4 | 2.4.0:test5 | 2.4.0:test6 | 2.4.0:test7 | 2.4.0:test8 | 2.4.0:test9 | 2.4.18 | 2.4.18:pre1 | 2.4.18:pre2 | 2.4.18:pre3 | 2.4.18:pre4 | 2.4.18:pre5 | 2.4.18:pre6 | 2.4.18:pre7 | 2.4.18:pre8 | 2.4.19:pre1 | 2.4.19:pre2 | 2.4.19:pre3 | 2.4.19:pre4 | 2.4.19:pre5 | 2.4.19:pre6 | 2.4.21:pre1 | 2.4.21:pre4 | 2.4.21:pre7 | 2.4.22:pre10 | 2.4.23 | 2.4.23:pre9 | 2.4.23_ow2 | 2.4.24 | 2.4.24_ow1 | 2.4.25 | 2.4.26 | 2.4.27 | 2.4.27:pre1 | 2.4.27:pre2 | 2.4.27:pre3 | 2.4.27:pre4 | 2.4.27:pre5 | 2.4.28 | 2.4.29 | 2.4.29:rc1 | 2.6.0 | 2.6.1:rc1 | 2.6.1:rc2 | 2.6.2 | 2.6.3 | 2.6.4 | 2.6.5