CVE-2011-2184 (GCVE-0-2011-2184)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-09-06 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:53
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The key_replace_session_keyring function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.1 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT argument to the keyctl function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2960.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
| URL | Tags |
|---|---|
| http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem… | x_refsource_MISC |
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| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/502 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8371 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SREASON |
| http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/Chang… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/2 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
Date Public
2011-05-23 00:00
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They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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