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LOW

security flaw

Published Jun 8, 2004

Description

The e1000 driver for Linux kernel 2.4.26 and earlier does not properly initialize memory before using it, which allows local users to read portions of kernel memory. NOTE: this issue was originally incorrectly reported as a "buffer overflow" by some sources.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Metrics

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (17)

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jun 8, 2004
Updated Aug 8, 2024
Reserved Jun 4, 2004
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity Low
Public date May 14, 2004