CVEvulnerability

CVE-2004-2607

2.1 LOW Published 2004-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2004-12-31
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

A numeric casting discrepancy in sdla_xfer in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.5 and 2.4 up to 2.4.29-rc1 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory via a large len argument, which is received as an int but cast to a short, which prevents a read loop from filling a buffer.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel 2.4.0 • linux linux kernel 2.4.18 • linux linux kernel 2.4.19 • 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 2.4.28 • linux linux kernel 2.4.29 • linux linux kernel 2.6.0 • linux linux kernel 2.6.1 • linux linux kernel 2.6.2 • linux linux kernel 2.6.3 • linux linux kernel 2.6.4 • linux linux kernel 2.6.5

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