FKIE_CVE-2011-2184

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2011-09-06 16:55 - Updated: 2026-06-16 23:30
Severity
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txtBroken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4e
secalert@redhat.comhttp://securityreason.com/securityalert/8371Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/502Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txtBroken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4e
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8371Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1Broken Link
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/2Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/502Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265Patch, Third Party Advisory
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
linux linux_kernel *

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