CVE-2010-1437

HighCVSS 7.0/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.1 7.0/10CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-362 CWE-416

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published: May 7, 2010
Last modified: Jun 16, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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