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CVE-2011-2184

Published: 06/09/2011 Updated: 13/02/2023
CVSS v2 Base Score: 7.2 | Impact Score: 10 | Exploitability Score: 3.9
VMScore: 642
Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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Vulnerability Summary

The key_replace_session_keyring function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel prior to 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.

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References

CWE-476http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/2http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txthttps://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/2https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/502https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8371http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4ehttps://nvd.nist.gov
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