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CVE-2004-2607

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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.

CVE Details

CVSS v3.1 ScoreN/A

Published12/31/2004

Last Modified4/16/2026

Sourcenvd

Honeypot Sightings0

Affected Products

linux:linux_kernel

References

http://secunia.com/advisories/18977(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/19369(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16759(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/0313.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/0743.html(cve@mitre.org)

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:044(cve@mitre.org)

http://secunia.com/advisories/18977(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://secunia.com/advisories/19369(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:072(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16759(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/0313.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0404.2/0743.html(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

http://wwwnew.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:044(af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108)

IOC Correlations

No correlations recorded

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