CVE-2011-2494: Exposure of Sensitive Information to an Unauthorized Actor

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...

CVE-2011-2484: Undefined Security Weakness

The adddellistener function in kernel/taskstats.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.39.1 and earlier does not prevent multiple registrations of exit handlers, which allows local users to cause a denial of service memory and CPU consumption, and bypass the OOM Killer, via a crafted application...