CVE-2002-1571

Description

The linux 2.4 kernel before 2.4.19 assumes that the fninit instruction clears all registers, which could lead to an information leak on processors that do not clear all relevant SSE registers.

References

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-15/0760.html

http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/linux/linux-kernel/2002-15/0628.html

http://search.luky.org/linux-kernel.2002/msg24992.html

http://search.luky.org/linux-kernel.2002/msg24003.html

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.4/diffs/arch/i386/kernel/i387.c%401.6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Risk Information

CVSS v2

CVSS v3