CVE-2009-0031

CVE-2009-0031 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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."

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