Security Advisory

CVE-2003-0018

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-09-01 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 01:36:25
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Linux kernel 2.4.10 through 2.4.21-pre4 does not properly handle the O_DIRECT feature, which allows local attackers with write privileges to read portions of previously deleted files, or cause file system corruption.