CVE-2005-3965

CVE-2005-3965 is marked as a duplicate of CVE-2004-2607 (Rejected reason in description). Connected documents confirm CVE-2004-2607 exists and describes a numeric casting discrepancy in sdla_xfer for Linux kernels (2.6.x up to 2.6.5 and 2.4 up to 2.4.29-rc1) that can allow local users to read ker...

CVE-2004-2607

A numeric casting discrepancy in sdlaxfer 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...