CVE-2004-0685 Information

Description

Certain USB drivers in the Linux 2.4 kernel use the copy_to_user function on uninitialized structures which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading memory that was not cleared from previous usage.

Reference

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127921 http://secunia.com/advisories/20162 http://secunia.com/advisories/20163 http://secunia.com/advisories/20202 http://secunia.com/advisories/20338 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070 http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082 http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-24.xml http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/981134 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-504.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-505.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/10892 http://www.securityspace.com/smysecure/catid.html?id=14580 http://www.trustix.net/errata/2004/0041/ https://bugzilla.fedora.us/show_bug.cgi?id=2336 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/16931 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A10665