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CVE-2009-1192

Description

The (1) agp_generic_alloc_page and (2) agp_generic_alloc_pages functions in drivers/char/agp/generic.c in the agp subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc3 do not zero out pages that may later be available to a user-space process, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these pages.


Affected Package


OS OS Version Package Name Package Version
ubuntu 08.04 linux 2.6.24-24.55
ubuntu 08.10 linux 2.6.27-14.35
ubuntu 09.04 linux 2.6.28-13.45
ubuntu upstream linux any
ubuntu upstream linux-source-2.6.15 any

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