CVE-2014-3631

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

The assoc_array_gc function in the associative-array implementation in lib/assoc_array.c in the Linux kernel before 3.16.3 does not properly implement garbage collection, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via multiple "keyctl newring" operations followed by a "keyctl timeout" operation.

CWE-476: NULL Pointer Dereference

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 10 years ago

2014-09-28 10:55:00

Last updated 9 years ago

2015-03-18 02:01:00

Affected Software

Linux Kernel 3.16.0

3.16.0

Linux Kernel 3.16.1

3.16.1

Linux Kernel

References

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=95389b08d93d5c06ec63ab49bd732b0069b7c35e

Exploit

111298

36268

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.16.3

Exploit

70095

USN-2378-1

USN-2379-1

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1140325

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/95389b08d93d5c06ec63ab49bd732b0069b7c35e

Exploit

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