fkie_cve-2011-2494
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd
Published
2012-06-13 10:24
Modified
2025-04-11 00:51
Severity ?
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://secunia.com/advisories/48898
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *
linux linux_kernel 3.0.1
linux linux_kernel 3.0.2
linux linux_kernel 3.0.3
linux linux_kernel 3.0.4
linux linux_kernel 3.0.5
linux linux_kernel 3.0.6
linux linux_kernel 3.0.7
linux linux_kernel 3.0.8
linux linux_kernel 3.0.9
linux linux_kernel 3.0.10
linux linux_kernel 3.0.11
linux linux_kernel 3.0.12
linux linux_kernel 3.0.13
linux linux_kernel 3.0.14
linux linux_kernel 3.0.15
linux linux_kernel 3.0.16
linux linux_kernel 3.0.17
linux linux_kernel 3.0.18
linux linux_kernel 3.0.19
linux linux_kernel 3.0.20
linux linux_kernel 3.0.21
linux linux_kernel 3.0.22
linux linux_kernel 3.0.23
linux linux_kernel 3.0.24
linux linux_kernel 3.0.25
linux linux_kernel 3.0.26
linux linux_kernel 3.0.27
linux linux_kernel 3.0.28
linux linux_kernel 3.0.29
linux linux_kernel 3.0.30
linux linux_kernel 3.0.31
linux linux_kernel 3.0.32
linux linux_kernel 3.0.33


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