Tracker / CVE-2009-0320
CVE-2009-0320
Medium 4.0
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."
Affected products and versions
| microsoft | windows_server_2003 |
|---|---|
| microsoft | windows_server_2008 |
| microsoft | windows_vista |
| microsoft | windows_xp |
Analysis
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