CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2495
2.1 LOW
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- 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-264
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (<= 2.6.39.3)
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39.1
• linux linux kernel 2.6.39.2
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716825 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51 Exploit, Patch
- http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4 ftp.osuosl.org
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51 git.kernel.org
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1212.html rhn.redhat.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1 www.openwall.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716825 bugzilla.redhat.com
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51 Exploit, Patch