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CVE ID: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.
Test IDs: 1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.71005   1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.0.70991   1.3.6.1.4.1.25623.1.1.4.2012.0153.1  
Cross References: Common Vulnerability Exposure (CVE) ID: CVE-2011-2494
48898
http://secunia.com/advisories/48898
SUSE-SU-2012:0554
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2012-04/msg00021.html
[oss-security] 20110627 Re: CVE request: kernel: taskstats/procfs io infoleak
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/27/1
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/1a51410abe7d0ee4b1d112780f46df87d3621043




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