Security Advisory

CVE-2011-2494

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-06-13 10:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 23:00:34

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

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.

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