CVE-2009-1192 Information disclosure in n/a

What is CVE-2009-1192?

CVE-2009-1192 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 24 Apr 2009. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2009-1192?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2009-1192?

Upgrade to a fixed version.

Is CVE-2009-1192 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2009-1192 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as GHSA-232m-53gr-9v22.