CVE-2014-9529
MEDIUM severity · CVSS 6.9 · CWE-362
6.9CVSS MEDIUM
Summary
Race condition in the key_gc_unused_keys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl commands that trigger access to a key structure member during garbage collection of a key.
Impact & exploitability
Attack vectorLocal
Attack complexity—
Privileges required—
User interaction—
Confidentiality impact—
Integrity impact—
Availability impact—
Exploit probability (EPSS)0%
AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
Affected products we track (1)
Recommendation
Apply the vendor fix in your normal patch cycle. Open any affected product above for its exact safe version.
Additional information
- NVD record
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a3a8784454692dd72e5d5d34dcdab17b4420e74c
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147864.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147973.htmlAdvisory
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00009.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1137.htmlAdvisory
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.htmlAdvisory
- http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3128Advisory