CVE - CVE-2011-2184

CVE-ID
CVE-2011-2184	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
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.
References
Note: References are provided for the convenience of the reader to help distinguish between vulnerabilities. The list is not intended to be complete.
MISC:8371 URL:http://securityreason.com/securityalert/8371 MISC:[linux-kernel] 20110523 Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect values URL:https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/23/199 MISC:[linux-kernel] 20110524 Re: Fwd: Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect values URL:https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/24/502 MISC:[linux-kernel] 20110525 Re: [Security] Fwd: Oops (bad memory deref) in slab_alloc() due to filp_cachep holding incorrect values URL:https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/5/25/265 MISC:[oss-security] 20110603 CVE request: kernel: set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyring URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/03/2 MISC:[oss-security] 20110606 Re: CVE request: kernel: set cred->user_ns in key_replace_session_keyring URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2011/06/06/2 MISC:http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txt URL:http://alt.swiecki.net/linux_kernel/sys_open-kmem_cache_alloc-2.6.39-rc4.txt MISC:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4e URL:http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=f7285b5d631fd6096b11c6af0058ed3a2b30ef4e MISC:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1 URL:http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.39.1
Assigning CNA
Red Hat, Inc.
Date Record Created
20110531	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20110531)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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