CVE-2009-0031

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

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."

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.9/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Weakness enumeration

CWE-399

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: Jan 21, 2009
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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