CVE-2011-2495
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jun 13, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jun 15, 2011
Description
fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.4 does not properly restrict access to /proc/#####/io files, which allows local users to obtain sensitive I/O statistics by polling a file, as demonstrated by discovering the length of another user's password.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20110627 Re: CVE request: kernel: taskstats/procfs io infoleakmailing-list
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51
- RHSA-2011:1212vendor-advisory
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716825
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51
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