Security Advisory

CVE-2011-4110

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2012-01-27 15:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 00:01:50
Assigner redhat
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

The user_update function in security/keys/user_defined.c in the Linux kernel 2.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel oops) via vectors related to a user-defined key and "updating a negative key into a fully instantiated key."