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CVE-2009-0320
Published: Jan 28, 2009
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
Microsoft Windows XP, Server 2003 and 2008, and Vista exposes I/O activity measurements of all processes, which allows local users to obtain sensitive information, as demonstrated by reading the I/O Other Bytes column in Task Manager (aka taskmgr.exe) to estimate the number of characters that a different user entered at a runas.exe password prompt, related to a "benchmarking attack."
| Vendor | Product | Versions |
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n/a | n/a | affected n/a |
References
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20090124 Benchmarking attacks and major security weakness on all recent Windows versions up to Windows 200
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