Bug 168777

Summary:	CVE-2005-3276 sys_get_thread_area minor info leak
Product:	Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4	Reporter:	Mark J. Cox <mjc>
Component:	kernel	Assignee:	Larry Woodman <lwoodman>
Status:	CLOSED ERRATA	QA Contact:	Brian Brock <bbrock>
Severity:	low	Docs Contact:
Priority:	medium
Version:	4.0	CC:	jbaron
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Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
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Fixed In Version:	RHSA-2006-0101	Doc Type:	Bug Fix
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Bug Blocks:	168429

Description Mark J. Cox 2005-09-20 10:10:01 UTC

sys_get_thread_area does a copy_to_user on a partially unitialized structure,
which can leak a few random bits of information to userspace.

http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.6/cset@42e81864gSEM90Oun0jA8dufpM3inw

Comment 6 Red Hat Bugzilla 2006-01-17 08:33:16 UTC

An advisory has been issued which should help the problem
described in this bug report. This report is therefore being
closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For more information
on the solution and/or where to find the updated files,
please follow the link below. You may reopen this bug report
if the solution does not work for you.

http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2006-0101.html