Bug 1617040 (CVE-2003-0465) - CVE-2003-0465 security flaw
Summary: CVE-2003-0465 security flaw
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Status: CLOSED CURRENTRELEASE
Alias: CVE-2003-0465
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: Linux
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Assignee: Red Hat Product Security
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Reported: 2018-08-16 02:34 UTC by Stephen Herr
Modified: 2019-09-29 14:50 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2018-08-16 02:34:37 UTC
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Description Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 02:34:30 UTC 
Flaw bug created to hold information about an old flaw we knew something about. For more details see the MITRE CVE description.
Comment 1 Stephen Herr 2018-08-16 17:39:36 UTC 
MITRE description:

The kernel strncpy function in Linux 2.4 and 2.5 does not %NUL pad the buffer on architectures other than x86, as opposed to the expected behavior of strncpy as implemented in libc, which could lead to information leaks.
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