CVE-2002-1571

Impact:
Moderate
Public Date:
2002-04-17
Bugzilla:
1616925: CVE-2002-1571 security flaw

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The linux 2.4 kernel before 2.4.19 assumes that the fninit instruction clears all registers, which could lead to an information leak on processors that do not clear all relevant SSE registers.

Find out more about CVE-2002-1571 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

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