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CVE-2009-0031

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2009-01-21 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Memory leak in the keyctl_join_session_keyring function (security/keys/keyctl.c) in Linux kernel 2.6.29-rc2 and earlier allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel memory consumption) via unknown vectors related to a "missing kfree."

Affected Platforms

Linux Linux Kernel

Weakness Type

CWE-399

References