CVE-2010-1437 (GCVE-0-2010-1437)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-05-07 18:23 – Updated: 2024-08-07 01:21
VLAI
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.
Severity
7.0 (High)
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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Date Public
2010-04-22 00:00
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