Sensitive I/O Statistics Disclosure via Taskstats Netlink Socket

CVE-2011-2494 · LOW Severity

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

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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