CVE-2013-1792
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Mar 22, 2013
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Feb 19, 2013
Description
Race condition in the install_user_keyrings function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via crafted keyctl system calls that trigger keyring operations in simultaneous threads.
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-1796-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2013:1187vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/0da9dfdd2cd9889201bc6f6f43580c99165cd087
- MDVSA-2013:176vendor-advisory
- USN-1797-1vendor-advisory
- USN-1788-1vendor-advisory
- [oss-security] 20130307 CVE-2013-1792 Linux kernel: KEYS: race with concurrent install_user_keyrings()mailing-list
- USN-1793-1vendor-advisory
- USN-1792-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=0da9dfdd2cd9889201bc6f6f43580c99165cd087
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=916646
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.3
- USN-1794-1vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2013:0744vendor-advisory
- USN-1795-1vendor-advisory
- USN-1787-1vendor-advisory
- openSUSE-SU-2014:0204vendor-advisory
- USN-1798-1vendor-advisory
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