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Tracker / CVE-2009-0031

CVE-2009-0031

Medium 4.9

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."

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.28.1

Analysis

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