CVEvulnerability

CVE-2011-2494

2.1 LOW Published 2012-06-13 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2012-06-13
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
Weaknesses
CWE-200

Description

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 configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.0.34) • 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

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-200 Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor weakness

References