CVE-2011-2184
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 6, 2011
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 31, 2011
Description
The key_replace_session_keyring function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.1 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT argument to the keyctl function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2960.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
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References
- http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txt
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4e
- [oss-security] 20110603 CVE request: kernel: set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyringmailing-list
- [linux-kernel] 20110524 Re: Fwd: Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect valuesmailing-list
- [linux-kernel] 20110523 Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect valuesmailing-list
- [linux-kernel] 20110525 Re: [Security] Fwd: Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect valuesmailing-list
- 8371third-party-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1
- [oss-security] 20110606 Re: CVE request: kernel: set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyringmailing-list
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