CVE-2011-2494 - Organic Excess

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.

Reference

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1 http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842 http://secunia.com/advisories/48898 http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html