CVE-2010-2960
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 8, 2010
- Updated
- Aug 7, 2024
- Reserved
- Aug 4, 2010
Description
The keyctl_session_to_parent function in security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.35.4 and earlier expects that a certain parent session keyring exists, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT argument to the keyctl 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
- USN-1000-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20100902 CVE-2010-2960 kernel: keyctl_session_to_parent null ptr derefmailing-list
- linux-kernel-keyctl-dos(61557)vdb-entry
- 42932vdb-entry
- SUSE-SA:2011:007vendor-advisory
- ADV-2011-0298vdb-entry
- 41263third-party-advisory
- SUSE-SA:2010:050vendor-advisory
- http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22777866582
- 1024384vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627440
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