CVEvulnerability

CVE-2014-9529

6.9 MEDIUM Published 2015-01-09 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2015-01-09
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
6.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-362

Description

Race condition in the key_gc_unused_keys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl commands that trigger access to a key structure member during garbage collection of a key.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (< 3.2.67) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.4.107) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.5 < 3.10.67) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.11 <= 3.12.37) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.13 <= 3.14.31) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 3.16.35) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.5) • redhat enterprise linux desktop 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux desktop 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux server 7.0 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 6.6 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux server aus 7.7 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 6.6 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.1 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.2 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.4 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.5 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux server eus 7.7 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 6.6 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.3 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.6 • redhat enterprise linux server tus 7.7 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 6.0 • redhat enterprise linux workstation 7.0 • opensuse opensuse 13.1 • fedoraproject fedora 20 • fedoraproject fedora 21 • debian debian linux 7.0 • debian debian linux 8.0 • canonical ubuntu linux 10.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-362 Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization weakness

References