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CVE-2009-1192

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2009-04-24 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The (1) agp_generic_alloc_page and (2) agp_generic_alloc_pages functions in drivers/char/agp/generic.c in the agp subsystem in the Linux kernel before 2.6.30-rc3 do not zero out pages that may later be available to a user-space process, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information by reading these pages.

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References