CVE-2009-0320

CVE-2009-0320 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:H/AU:N/C:C/I:N/A:N

Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista exposes I/O activity measurements of all processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (aka taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, related to a "benchmarking attack."

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