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CVE-2014-9529 Details

Description

Race condition in the key_gc_unused_keys function in security/keys/gc.c in the Linux kernel through 3.18.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption or panic) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl commands that trigger access to a key structure member during garbage collection of a key.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URLSource(s)Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a3a8784454692dd72e5d5d34dcdab17b4420e74c CVEBroken Link
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147864.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147973.html CVEThird Party Advisory
http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00009.html CVEMailing ListThird Party Advisory
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html CVEThird Party Advisory

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Weakness Enumeration

CWE-IDCWE NameSource
CWE-362Concurrent Execution using Shared Resource with Improper Synchronization ('Race Condition')[email protected]

Affected Products

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Change History

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QUICK INFO

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2014-9529
NVD Published Date:
Jan 9, 2015
NVD Last Modified:
Jun 17, 2026
Source:
[email protected]