CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0565

2.1 LOW Published 2004-12-06 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-06
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Description

Floating point information leak in the context switch code for Linux 2.4.x only checks the MFH bit but does not verify the FPH owner, which allows local users to read register values of other processes by setting the MFH bit.

Affected configurations

• mandrakesoft mandrake multi network firewall 8.2 • gentoo linux • linux linux kernel 2.4.0 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 9.1 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 9.2 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux 10.0 • mandrakesoft mandrake linux corporate server 2.1 • trustix secure linux 2 • trustix secure linux 2.0 • trustix secure linux 2.1

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