CVE-2011-2494 (GCVE-0-2011-2494)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2012-06-13 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 23:00
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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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2011-06-27 00:00
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