| Name | CVE-2004-0177 |
| 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. |
| Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
| References | DSA-479, DSA-480, DSA-481, DSA-482, DSA-489, DSA-491, DSA-495 |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
- linux-2.6 <not-affected> (fixed before first upload; 2.6.8)
- kernel-source-2.4.27 <not-affected> (Fixed before upload into archive; 2.4.26-pre4)