Bug 256126 (CVE-2009-0031)

Summary:	Kernel: security: introduce missing kfree (CVE-2009-0031)
Product:	Gentoo Security	Reporter:	Stefan Behte (RETIRED) <craig>
Component:	Kernel	Assignee:	Gentoo Security <security>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	hardened-kernel+disabled, kernel
Priority:	High
Version:	unspecified
Hardware:	All
OS:	Linux
URL:	http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0d54ee1c7850a954026deec4cd4885f331da35cc
Whiteboard:	[linux <2.6.27.13] [linux >=2.6.28 <2.6.28.2]
Package list:		Runtime testing required:	---

Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) gentoo-dev

2009-01-23 21:35:57 UTC

CVE-2009-0031 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2009-0031):
  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."