CVE-2008-2729

Impact:
Important
Public Date:
2006-08-26
Bugzilla:
451271: CVE-2008-2729 kernel: [x86_64] The string instruction version didn't zero the output on exception.

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

arch/x86_64/lib/copy_user.S in the Linux kernel before 2.6.19 on some AMD64 systems does not erase destination memory locations after an exception during kernel memory copy, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information.

Find out more about CVE-2008-2729 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Red Hat Security Errata

Platform Errata Release Date
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 (kernel) RHSA-2008:0519 2008-06-25
MRG Grid for RHEL 5 Server (kernel-rt) RHSA-2008:0585 2008-08-26
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 (kernel) RHSA-2008:0508 2008-06-25

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