CVE-2009-0031

Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

CVE-2009-0031 at MITRE

Details

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."

Novell Bugzilla entry: 467322

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SA:2009:010, published Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:00:00 +0000
SUSE-SA:2009:010 , published Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:00:00 +0000

Product(s)	Fixed package version(s)	References
openSUSE 11.1	`kernel-debug-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-debug-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-default-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-default-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-kdump-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-kdump-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-pae-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-pae-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ppc64-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ppc64-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ps3-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ps3-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-source-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-trace-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-trace-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-vanilla-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-vanilla-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-xen-debuginfo >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-xen-debugsource >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1`	SAT Patch Nr: 559
openSUSE 11.1	`kernel-debug >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-debug-base >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-debug-extra >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-default >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-default-base >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-default-extra >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-docs >= 2.6.3-3.13.5` `kernel-kdump >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-pae >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-pae-base >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-pae-extra >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ppc64 >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ppc64-base >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ppc64-extra >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-ps3 >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-source >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-syms >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-trace >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-trace-base >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-trace-extra >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-vanilla >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-xen >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-xen-base >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1` `kernel-xen-extra >= 2.6.27.19-3.2.1`	SAT Patch Nr: 559