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."
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2009-01-28T18:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T04:31:25.585Z

Reserved: 2009-01-28T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2009-0320

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2009-01-28T18:30:00.217

Modified: 2024-11-21T00:59:37.680

Link: CVE-2009-0320

cve-icon Redhat

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