Veracode Vulnerability DatabaseVERACODE:24184Information Disclosure
0.001 Low
EPSS
Percentile
20.3%
kernel is vulnerable to information disclosure. A flaw was found in the xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr() function in the Linux kernel XFS file system implementation. A data structure in xfs_ioc_fsgetxattr() was not initialized properly before being copied to user-space. A local, unprivileged user could use this flaw to cause an information leak.
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