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CVE-2011-2495

by Fred · 13/06/2012

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.

Date published : 2012-06-13

http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.4

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=1d1221f375c94ef961ba8574ac4f85c8870ddd51

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