CVE-2010-1437 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2010-1437?

CVE-2010-1437 is a high-severity vulnerability in Debian Debian Linux, published on 7 May 2010. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Race condition in the find_keyring_by_name function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel 2.6.34-rc5 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via keyctl session commands that trigger access to a dead keyring that is undergoing deletion by the key_cleanup function.

Weakness: CWE-416, CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2010-1437?

It affects 6 products.

Products include Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Opensuse Opensuse, Suse Linux Enterprise Desktop, Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension, Suse Linux Enterprise Server.

How do I fix CVE-2010-1437?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2010-1437 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2010-1437 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-mrjp-428h-53c5.