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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."

Published Jan 28, 2009

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."

Affected products

Remediation

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References (3)

Change history (0)

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Sources
CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 28, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Reserved Jan 28, 2009
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 16, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
Public date n/a
ENISA EUVD
Assigner mitre
Published Jan 28, 2009
Updated Aug 7, 2024
Exploited since n/a
EUVD-2009-0324