CVE-2009-0031 Information

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.\

Reference

http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0d54ee1c7850a954026deec4cd4885f331da35cc http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2009-02/msg00003.html http://osvdb.org/51501 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2009-0264.html http://secunia.com/advisories/33858 http://secunia.com/advisories/34252 http://secunia.com/advisories/34394 http://secunia.com/advisories/34502 http://secunia.com/advisories/34762 http://secunia.com/advisories/34981 http://secunia.com/advisories/35011 http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-114.htm http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1749 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1787 http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1794 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2009/01/19/4 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0331.html http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2009-0360.html http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-751-1 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval3Aorg.mitre.oval3Adef3A11386