CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-2184
7.2 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2011-09-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- 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 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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (< 2.6.39.1)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness
References
- http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txt Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4e git.kernel.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8371 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199 Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/502 Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txt Broken Link
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4e git.kernel.org
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8371 Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1 Broken Link
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/2 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199 Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/502 Third Party Advisory
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265 Patch, Third Party Advisory