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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Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published:
Updated: 2024-08-07T04:31:25.585Z
Reserved: 2009-01-28T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2009-0320

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Status : Deferred
Published: 2009-01-28T18:30:00.217
Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490
Link: CVE-2009-0320

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