CWE
200
Advisory Published
Updated

REDHAT-BUG-716825: Infoleak

First published: Mon Jun 27 2011(Updated: )

/proc/PID/io may be used for gathering private information. E.g. for openssh and vsftpd daemons wchars/rchars may be used to learn the precise password length. [0/2] restrict statistics information to user <a href="https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/24/88">https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/6/24/88</a> [1/2] proc: restrict access to /proc/PID/io (<a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2495">CVE-2011-2495</a>) <a href="https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/916032/">https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/916032/</a> [2/2] taskstats: restrict access to user (<a href="https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2011-2494">CVE-2011-2494</a>) <a href="https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/916042/">https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/916042/</a> taskstats authorized_keys presence infoleak PoC <a href="http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q2/659">http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q2/659</a> Acknowledgements: Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov of Openwall for reporting this issue.

Affected SoftwareAffected VersionHow to fix
GSI OpenSSH
vsftpd

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