CVE-2009-0031 (GCVE-0-2009-0031)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2009-01-21 02:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 04:17
VLAI
Summary
Memory leak in the keyctl_join_session_keyring function (security/keys/keyctl.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.29-rc2 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory consumption) via unknown vectors related to a "missing kfree."
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
http://secunia.com/advisories/34502 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-03… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/def… vdb-entrysignaturex_refsource_OVAL
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-annou… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-03… vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1749 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torval… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
http://secunia.com/advisories/34252 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://secunia.com/advisories/33858 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/19/4 mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/34394 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_DEBIAN
http://osvdb.org/51501 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://secunia.com/advisories/34762 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
Date Public
2009-01-17 00:00
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