CVE-2010-1437
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 7, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Apr 15, 2010
Description
Race condition in the find_keyring_by_name function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc5 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl session commands that trigger access to a dead keyring that is undergoing deletion by the key_cleanup function.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20100427 CVE request - kernel: find_keyring_by_name() can gain the freed keyringmailing-list
- SUSE-SA:2010:031vendor-advisory
- [linux-kernel] 20100503 Re: [PATCH 2/7] KEYS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a freed keyringmailing-list
- oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9715vdb-entrysignature
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94664/
- kernel-findkeyringbyname-dos(58254)vdb-entry
- [linux-kernel] 20100422 [PATCH 0/1][BUG][IMPORTANT] KEYRINGS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain the freed keyringmailing-list
- RHSA-2010:0474vendor-advisory
- 40645third-party-advisory
- 43315third-party-advisory
- [linux-kernel] 20100430 [PATCH 2/7] KEYS: find_keyring_by_name() can gain access to a freed keyringmailing-list
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94038/
- [oss-security] 20100427 Re: CVE request - kernel: find_keyring_by_name() can gain the freed keyringmailing-list
- 40218third-party-advisory
- http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585094
- DSA-2053vendor-advisory
- 39719vdb-entry
- 20110211 VMSA-2011-0003 Third party component updates for VMware vCenter Server, vCenter Update Manager, ESXi and ESXmailing-list
- 39830third-party-advisory
- ADV-2010-1857vdb-entry
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