CVE-2010-2960 (GCVE-0-2010-2960)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2010-09-08 19:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 02:55
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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.
Severity
7.8 (High)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
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|---|---|
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| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/09/02/1 | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilit… | vdb-entryx_refsource_XF |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/42932 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2011/0298 | vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPEN |
| http://secunia.com/advisories/41263 | third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA |
| http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE |
| http://twitter.com/taviso/statuses/22777866582 | x_refsource_MISC |
| http://securitytracker.com/id?1024384 | vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=627440 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
Date Public
2010-09-01 00:00
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vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.