CVE-2003-0984: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 4.6. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Real time clock (RTC) routines in Linux kernel 2.4.23 and earlier do not properly initialize their structures, which could leak kernel data to user space.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.1 only; version 2.4.2 only; version 2.4.3 only; version 2.4.4 only; version 2.4.5 only; …

Published 2004-01-05. Last modified 2026-06-16.