CVE-2004-2607: Linux Kernel

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

A numeric casting discrepancy in sdla_xfer in Linux kernel 2.6.x up to 2.6.5 and 2.4 up to 2.4.29-rc1 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory via a large len argument, which is received as an int but cast to a short, which prevents a read loop from filling a buffer.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 2.4.0 only; version 2.4.18 only; version 2.4.19 only; version 2.4.21 only; version 2.4.22 only; version 2.4.23 only; …

Published 2004-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.