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LOW

security flaw

Published Jan 23, 2006

Description

The linux 2.4 kernel before 2.4.19 assumes that the fninit instruction clears all registers, which could lead to an information leak on processors that do not clear all relevant SSE registers.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (9)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 23, 2006
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Nov 26, 2003
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Moderate
Public date Apr 17, 2002