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CVE-2011-4915
- Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.1)
- Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
- EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
- Public exploit or detection template: yes
- Published: 2020-02-20 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-200
Description
fs/proc/base.c in the Linux kernel through 3.1 allows local users to obtain sensitive keystroke information via access to /proc/interrupts.
Affected products
- Canonical Ubuntu Linux: 14.04
- Debian Linux: 8.0, 9.0, 10.0
- Linux kernel: through 3.1
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0499680a42141d86417a8fbaa8c8db806bea1201
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a2ef990ab5a6705a356d146dd773a3b359787497
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4915.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/07/9
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/7/340
- https://seclists.org/oss-sec/2011/q4/571
- https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2011-4915
- https://vigilance.fr/vulnerability/Linux-kernel-information-disclosure-about-keyboard-11131
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0499680a42141d86417a8fbaa8c8db806bea1201
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a2ef990ab5a6705a356d146dd773a3b359787497
- http://people.canonical.com/~ubuntu-security/cve/2011/CVE-2011-4915.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/07/9
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