Tracker / CVE-2011-2494
CVE-2011-2494
Low 2.1
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.
Affected products and versions
| linux | linux_kernel |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · … → 3.0.34 |
Analysis
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