CVE-2014-9529
No CVSS score yet. EPSS 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
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.
- EPSS
- 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 27% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-362
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- canonical:ubuntu_linux
- debian:debian_linux
- fedoraproject:fedora
- linux:linux_kernel
- opensuse:opensuse
- redhat:enterprise_linux_desktop
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_aus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_eus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_server_tus
- redhat:enterprise_linux_workstation
References
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=a3a8784454692dd72e5d5d34dcdab17b4420e74c
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147864.html
- http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/package-announce/2015-January/147973.html
- http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2015-04/msg00009.html
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-0864.html