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CVE-2010-1437

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CVE-2010-1437

Published: May 7, 2010

Modified: Aug 7, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

VendorProductVersions

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affected
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References

SUSE-SA:2010:031
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_SUSE
oval:org.mitre.oval:def:9715
vdb-entry
signature
x_refsource_OVAL
RHSA-2010:0474
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_REDHAT
40645
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
43315
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
40218
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
DSA-2053
vendor-advisory
x_refsource_DEBIAN
39719
vdb-entry
x_refsource_BID
39830
third-party-advisory
x_refsource_SECUNIA
ADV-2010-1857
vdb-entry
x_refsource_VUPEN

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