{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2011-06-21T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: taskstats io infoleak",
    "id" : "716842",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "details" : [ "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." ],
  "statement" : "This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as it did not provide support for the Taskstats interface. This has been addressed in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG via https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1479.html, https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2011-1465.html, and https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2012-0010.html.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Vasiliy Kulikov (Openwall) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "release_date" : "2011-11-29T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1479",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.18-274.12.1.el5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "release_date" : "2011-11-22T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2011:1465",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.32-131.21.1.el6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2012-01-10T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2012:0010",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:2.6.33.9-rt31.79.el6rt"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2011-2494\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2011-2494" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2011-2494",
  "csaw" : false
}