Description
The key serial number collision avoidance code in the key_alloc_serial function in Linux kernel 2.6.9 up to 2.6.20 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via vectors that trigger a null dereference, as originally reported as "spinlock CPU recursion."
Affected products
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References
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0099.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24429 ↗
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=227495 ↗
- http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7727 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24259 ↗
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-451-1 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:047 ↗
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_21_kernel.html ↗
- https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9829 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24300 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/471457 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24482 ↗
- http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2007-0085.html ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24752 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24547 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24109 ↗
- https://issues.rpath.com/browse/RPL-1097 ↗
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/22539 ↗
- http://secunia.com/advisories/25691 ↗
- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:060 ↗