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Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 20:37:54 -0400 (EDT)
From: Josh Bressers <bressers@...hat.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: coley <coley@...re.org>
Subject: Re: CVE Request (kernel)


----- "Josh Bressers" <bressers@...hat.com> wrote:

> 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.
> 

Argh, not ia64, x86_64.

Sorry for the confusion.

-- 
    JB

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