CVE-2010-1437

Advisory lineage Upstream: 0 Downstream: 4
Modified
Published: 07 May 2010, 18:23
Last modified:07 Aug 2024, 01:21

Vulnerability Summary

Overall Risk (default)
medium
38/100
CVSS Score
7 HIGH
v3.1 (nvd)
EPSS Score
0.24% LOW
0% probability 0.00%
KEV
Not listed
Ransomware
No reports
Public exploits
4 found
Dark Web
Not detected

Timeline

07 May 2010, 18:23
Published
Vulnerability first disclosed
07 Aug 2024, 01:21
Last Modified
Vulnerability information updated

Description

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.

CVSS Metrics

  • v3.1•HIGH•Score: 7CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
  • v2.0•MEDIUM•Score: 4.4AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

EPSS Trends

Current EPSS score: 0.24%• Percentile: 48%

Techniques & Countermeasures

  • CWE-362•Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')

    The product contains a concurrent code sequence that requires temporary, exclusive access to a shared resource, but a timing window exists in which the shared resource can be modified by another code sequence operating concurrently.

  • CWE-416•Use After Free

    The product reuses or references memory after it has been freed. At some point afterward, the memory may be allocated again and saved in another pointer, while the original pointer references a location somewhere within the new allocation. Any operations using the original pointer are no longer valid because the memory "belongs" to the code that operates on the new pointer.

Affected Systems

  • debian•debian_linux

    5.0

  • linux•linux_kernel

    < 2.6.34 | 2.6.34:rc1 | 2.6.34:rc2 | 2.6.34:rc3 | 2.6.34:rc4 | 2.6.34:rc5

  • opensuse•opensuse

    11.1

  • suse•linux_enterprise_desktop

    11

  • suse•linux_enterprise_high_availability_extension

    11

  • suse•linux_enterprise_server

    11

References (21)