Security Advisory

CVE-2004-0565

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2004-07-08 04:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-08 00:24:25
Assigner mitre
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Floating point information leak in the context switch code for Linux 2.4.x only checks the MFH bit but does not verify the FPH owner, which allows local users to read register values of other processes by setting the MFH bit.