Ubuntu
iotop package

  1. Bug #897411
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 897411

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Paul Wise (Debian) (pabs) wrote : iotop now requires root privileges

iotop 0.4.4 has reached Ubuntu, so iotop will no longer crash.

Linux itself now requires root privileges to access the information
required by iotop. This was changed in response to the discovery of a
security issue (CVE-2011-2494) caused by exposing the taskstats data to
non-root users.

https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/cve/2011-2494

 status fixreleased