CVE-2011-2184 (GCVE-0-2011-2184)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2011-09-06 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 22:53
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Summary
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.
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2011-05-23 00:00
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