cve-2011-2494
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2012-06-13 10:00
Modified
2024-08-06 23:00
Severity ?
Summary
kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive I/O statistics by sending taskstats commands to a netlink socket, as demonstrated by discovering the length of another user's password.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48898
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043Patch
Impacted products
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