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Date: Wed, 29 Jun 2011 21:35:19 +0400
From: Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>
To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
oss-security@...ts.openwall.com, security@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [Security] CVE request: kernel: taskstats/procfs io infoleak
(was: taskstats authorized_keys presence infoleak PoC)
On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:32 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 29, 2011 at 10:21 AM, Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com> wrote:
> >
> > So, with rounded read_characters value it's possible to learn privkey
> > length.
>
> Umm. You can trivially figure that out from the public key lenth
> already, can't you?
No, the attacker here have no information about the key at all. It
tries to authorize with a random key and a random password.
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Vasiliy Kulikov
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