CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-0685

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2004-12-23 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-23
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Certain USB drivers in the Linux 2.4 kernel use the copy_to_user function on uninitialized structures, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading memory that was not cleared from previous usage.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.2.0 • linux linux kernel 2.2.1 • linux linux kernel 2.2.2 • linux linux kernel 2.2.3 • linux linux kernel 2.2.4 • linux linux kernel 2.2.5 • linux linux kernel 2.2.6 • linux linux kernel 2.2.7 • linux linux kernel 2.2.8 • linux linux kernel 2.2.9 • linux linux kernel 2.2.10 • linux linux kernel 2.2.11 • linux linux kernel 2.2.12 • linux linux kernel 2.2.13 • linux linux kernel 2.2.14 • linux linux kernel 2.2.15 • linux linux kernel 2.2.15 pre20 • linux linux kernel 2.2.16 • linux linux kernel 2.2.17 • linux linux kernel 2.2.18 • linux linux kernel 2.2.19 • linux linux kernel 2.2.20 • linux linux kernel 2.2.21 • linux linux kernel 2.2.22 • linux linux kernel 2.2.23 • linux linux kernel 2.2.24 • linux linux kernel 2.2.25 • linux linux kernel 2.3.0 • linux linux kernel 2.3.99 • linux linux kernel 2.4.0 • linux linux kernel 2.4.1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.3 • linux linux kernel 2.4.4 • linux linux kernel 2.4.5 • linux linux kernel 2.4.6 • linux linux kernel 2.4.7 • linux linux kernel 2.4.8 • linux linux kernel 2.4.9 • linux linux kernel 2.4.10 • linux linux kernel 2.4.11 • linux linux kernel 2.4.12 • linux linux kernel 2.4.13 • linux linux kernel 2.4.14 • linux linux kernel 2.4.15 • linux linux kernel 2.4.16 • linux linux kernel 2.4.17 • linux linux kernel 2.4.18 • linux linux kernel 2.4.19 • linux linux kernel 2.4.20 • linux linux kernel 2.4.21 • linux linux kernel 2.4.22 • linux linux kernel 2.4.23 • linux linux kernel 2.4.23 ow2 • linux linux kernel 2.4.24 • linux linux kernel 2.4.24 ow1 • linux linux kernel 2.4.25 • linux linux kernel 2.4.26 • linux linux kernel 2.4.27 • linux linux kernel 2.5.0 … and 83 more

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