cve/2011/CVE-2011-2494.md

CVE-2011-2494

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.

POC

Reference

• http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842

Github

No PoCs found on GitHub currently.