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Tracker / CVE-2016-0728

CVE-2016-0728

High 7.8

The join_session_keyring function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.1 mishandles object references in a certain error case, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (integer overflow and use-after-free) via crafted keyctl commands.

Affected products and versions

canonical ubuntu_linux
debian debian_linux
google android
hp server_migration_pack · … → 7.5
linux linux_kernel · 3.11 → 3.12.53
linux linux_kernel · 3.13 → 3.14.59
linux linux_kernel · 3.15 → 3.16.35
linux linux_kernel · 3.17 → 3.18.26
linux linux_kernel · 3.19 → 4.1.16
linux linux_kernel · 3.8 → 3.10.95
linux linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.3.4
linux linux_kernel · 4.4 → 4.4.1

Analysis

This page is not indexable yet.Until it carries original analysis — what it actually exposes, how to check in two minutes whether a system was touched, what to do if it was — the page stays noindex. The database decides that, not the template.

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