CVE-2004-1058

Severity: low (CVSS 1.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-01-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Race condition in Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to read the environment variables of another process that is still spawning via /proc/.../cmdline.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 2.6.0, 2.6.0-test1, 2.6.0-test10, 2.6.0-test11, 2.6.0-test2, 2.6.0-test3 (+24)
Ubuntu Linux: 4.1

References

http://lists.suse.de/archive/suse-security-announce/2006-Feb/0010.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/18684
http://secunia.com/advisories/19038
http://secunia.com/advisories/19369
http://secunia.com/advisories/19607
http://secunia.com/advisories/21476
http://www.debian.org/security/2006/dsa-1018
http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200408-24.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2005:022
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2005-293.html
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2006-0190.html

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