PT-2009-3688 · Microsoft · Windows Server 2003 +5

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: Microsoft Windows 2000 SP4 Microsoft Windows XP SP2 and SP3 Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2 Microsoft Windows Vista Gold, SP1, and SP2 Microsoft Windows Server 2008 SP2 Description: The issue arises from the kernel's failure to properly...

Null pointer dereference

The copyfromusermmapsem function in fs/splice.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.22 through 2.6.24 does not validate a certain userspace pointer before dereference, which allow local users to read from arbitrary kernel memory locations...