Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel Keyring Detection

CVE-2014-0102 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:A/AC:M/AU:S/C:N/I:N/A:C

The keyring_detect_cycle_iterator function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly determine whether keyrings are identical, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted keyctl commands.

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