CVE-2005-3276 Information

Description

The sys_get_thread_area function in process.c in Linux 2.6 before 2.6.12.4 and 2.6.13 does not clear a data structure before copying it to userspace which might allow a user process to obtain sensitive information.

Reference

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@42e81864gSEM90Oun0jA8dufpM3inw http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/8/3/36 http://secunia.com/advisories/17826 http://secunia.com/advisories/18056 http://secunia.com/advisories/18510 http://secunia.com/advisories/19252 http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-922 http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=71ae18ec690953e9ba7107c7cc44589c2cc0d9f1 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:218 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:219 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:220 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0144.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/427980/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428028/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/428058/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15527 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A9748 https://usn.ubuntu.com/219-1/