CVE-2010-1437 in Kernelinfo

Summary

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.

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Reservation

04/15/2010

Disclosure

05/07/2010

Status

Confirmed

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