CVE-2014-3631
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Sep 28, 2014
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- May 14, 2014
Description
The assoc_array_gc function in the associative-array implementation in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3 does not properly implement garbage collection, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via multiple "keyctl newring" operations followed by a "keyctl timeout" operation.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- 36268exploit
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140325
- 70095vdb-entry
- 111298vdb-entry
- USN-2378-1vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=95389b08d93d5c06ec63ab49bd732b0069b7c35e
- USN-2379-1vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.3
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/95389b08d93d5c06ec63ab49bd732b0069b7c35e
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