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Tracker / CVE-2010-1437

CVE-2010-1437

High 7.0

Race condition in the find_keyring_by_name function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc5 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl session commands that trigger access to a dead keyring that is undergoing deletion by the key_cleanup function.

Affected products and versions

debian debian_linux
linux linux_kernel
linux linux_kernel · … → 2.6.34
opensuse opensuse
suse linux_enterprise_desktop
suse linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension
suse linux_enterprise_server

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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