Bug 325571 – Kernel: race condition in find_keyring_by_name() (CVE-2010-1437)

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Security

[Description Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2010-06-25 19:55:52 UTC]

CVE-2010-1437 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1437):
  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.

[Comment 1 Stefan Behte (RETIRED) 2010-06-25 21:37:54 UTC]

CVE-2010-1437 (http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2010-1437):
  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.

[Comment 2 Anthony Basile 2010-06-26 01:19:03 UTC]

Of the hardened sources currently in the tree, none of the hardened-sources-2.6.32* are vulnerable.  They are based off of kernels > 2.6.32.10.