CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0177

5.0 MEDIUM Published 2004-06-01 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-06-01
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
5.0 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.0

References