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CVE-2004-2607

Severity CVSS v4.0:
Pending analysis
Type:
Unavailable / Other
Publication date:
31/12/2004
Last modified:
03/04/2025

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.

Impact

Vector 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N CVSS v2.0 Severity and Metrics:

Base Score: 2.10 LOW
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N

Attack Vector (AV): Local
Attack Complexity (AC): Low
Authentication (Au): None
Confidentiality (C): Physical
Integrity (I): None
Availability (A): None

Base Score 2.0
2.10
Severity 2.0
LOW

Vulnerable products and versions

CPE From Up to
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test10:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test11:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test12:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test2:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test3:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test4:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test5:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test6:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test7:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test8:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.0:test9:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.18:*:x86:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.18:pre1:*:*:*:*:*:*
cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:2.4.18:pre2:*:*:*:*:*:*

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