CVE-2004-0177 Information

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.

Reference

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