CVE-2014-9529 Race condition in n/a

What is CVE-2014-9529?

CVE-2014-9529 is a medium-severity vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 9 Jan 2015. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-362

Which versions are affected by CVE-2014-9529?

It affects 11 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Fedoraproject Fedora, Linux kernel, Opensuse Opensuse, Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop and 5 more.

How do I fix CVE-2014-9529?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Is CVE-2014-9529 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2014-9529 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
• How this page is made

Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2014-9529, GHSA-wc9w-8x8g-533g, UBUNTU-CVE-2014-9529.