CVEvulnerability

CVE-2010-1437

7.0 HIGH Published 2010-05-07 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2010-05-07
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.0 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-362, CWE-416

Description

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.34) • linux linux kernel 2.6.34 • opensuse opensuse 11.1 • suse linux enterprise desktop 11 • suse linux enterprise high availability extension 11 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • debian debian linux 5.0

Related

Weakness · CWE (2)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness
  • CWE-416 Use After Free weakness

Referenced by CWE · observed example (1)

References