Information Exposure Affecting torvalds/linux package, versions [,2.6.30.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
0.09% (28th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-TORVALDSLINUX-3006426
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed24 Apr 2009
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 24 Apr 2009

CVE-2009-1192  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-200  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade torvalds/linux to version 2.6.30.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Information Exposure. The (1) agp_generic_alloc_page and (2) agp_generic_alloc_pages functions in drivers/char/agp/generic.c in the agp subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc3 do not zero out pages that may later be available to a user-space process, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these pages.

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