CVE-2014-9529 (GCVE-0-2014-9529)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-01-09 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47
VLAI?
Summary
Race condition in the key_gc_unused_keys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl commands that trigger access to a key structure member during garbage collection of a key.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/0… mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2512-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179813 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71880 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_FEDORA
http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a3a87844… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3128 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
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http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2511-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvald… x_refsource_CONFIRM
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