VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2004-0177
CVSS score5 MEDIUM
EPSS probability2.60%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2004-06-01
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Description
The ext3 code in Linux 2.4.x before 2.4.26 does not properly initialize journal descriptor blocks, which causes an information leak in which in-memory data is written to the device for the ext3 file system, which allows privileged users to obtain portions of kernel memory by reading the raw device.