CVEvulnerability
CVE-2010-2960
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2010-09-08
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-476
Description
The keyctl_session_to_parent function in security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.35.4 and earlier expects that a certain parent session keyring exists, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT argument to the keyctl function.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.35.4)
• canonical ubuntu linux 6.06
• canonical ubuntu linux 8.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 9.10
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.04
• canonical ubuntu linux 10.10
• suse suse linux enterprise desktop 11
• suse suse linux enterprise server 11
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41263 Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024384 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22777866582 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/02/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42932 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627440 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61557 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-10/msg00003.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2011-02/msg00000.html Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/41263 Broken Link
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1024384 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22777866582 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/02/1 Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42932 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1000-1 Third Party Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 Broken Link
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627440 Exploit, Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/61557 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry