oss-security - CVE Request (kernel)

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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 14:50:16 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: coley <coley@...re.org>
Cc: oss-security <oss-security@...ts.openwall.com>
Subject: CVE Request (kernel)

Hi Steve,

There is an information leak issue in the Linux Kernel:
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/10/1/164

It seems that an ia32 process running on an ia64 machine could see register
contents from a previous process.

Thanks.

-- 
    JB

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