CVEvulnerability
CVE-2011-4110
2.1 LOW
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2012-01-27
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 2.1 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-264
Description
The user_update function in security/keys/user_defined.c in the Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel oops) via vectors related to a user-defined key and "updating a negative key into a fully instantiated key."
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 2.6
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47754 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/19 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50755 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1324-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1328-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1344-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751297 Patch
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/15/363 Exploit
- http://marc.info/?l=bugtraq&m=139447903326211&w=2 marc.info
- http://secunia.com/advisories/47754 secunia.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/21/19 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/5 www.openwall.com
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/11/22/6 www.openwall.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/50755 www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1324-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1328-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1344-1 www.ubuntu.com
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=751297 Patch
- https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/11/15/363 Exploit