CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2011-2495

Published: Jun 13, 2012 | Modified: Feb 13, 2023
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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 users password.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39.1 2.6.39.1
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39
Linux_kernel Linux * 2.6.39.3
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39.2 2.6.39.2
Linux_kernel Linux 2.6.39 2.6.39

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