CVE-2004-0685

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2004-12-23 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Certain USB drivers in the Linux 2.4 kernel use the copy_to_user function on uninitialized structures, which could allow local users to obtain sensitive information by reading memory that was not cleared from previous usage.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.2.0, 2.2.1, 2.2.2, 2.2.3, 2.2.4, 2.2.5 (+193)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux: 3.0
RedHat Enterprise Linux Desktop: 3.0
Trustix Secure Linux: 2.0, 2.1

References

http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=127921
http://secunia.com/advisories/20162
http://secunia.com/advisories/20163
http://secunia.com/advisories/20202
http://secunia.com/advisories/20338
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1067
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1069
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1070
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1082
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-24.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/981134
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2004-504.html

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