### [CVE-2011-2494](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2011-2494)
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### 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.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716842

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.