Security Advisory

CVE-2002-1571

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-01-23 22:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 03:26:28
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.