ghsa-78r9-4xww-5cr5
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 04:02
Modified
2022-05-14 04:02
Details

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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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2011-2494"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-200"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2012-06-13T10:24:00Z",
    "severity": "LOW"
  },
  "details": "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\u0027s password.",
  "id": "GHSA-78r9-4xww-5cr5",
  "modified": "2022-05-14T04:02:57Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T04:02:57Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2494"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://secunia.com/advisories/48898"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.4.0",
  "severity": []
}


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