Vulnerability Report

CVE-2010-1437

Title: Suse Linux Enterprise High Availability Extension Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

PoC Available for CVE-2010-1437

CWE Category CWE-362

Published Date May 07, 2010

Modified Date Apr 29, 2026

Exploit Status Available

Score 7.0 CVSS v3.1

Exploit Probability (EPSS)

0.24%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2010-1437: 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.

Impacted Vendors

Reference Links

http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00006.html http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127192182917857&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127274294622730&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127292492727029&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/39830 http://secunia.com/advisories/40218 http://secunia.com/advisories/40645 http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/27/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0474.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39719 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1857 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585094 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58254 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9715 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94038/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94664/ http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2010-07/msg00006.html http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127192182917857&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127274294622730&w=2 http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=127292492727029&w=2 http://secunia.com/advisories/39830 http://secunia.com/advisories/40218 http://secunia.com/advisories/40645 http://secunia.com/advisories/43315 http://www.debian.org/security/2010/dsa-2053 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/27/2 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2010/04/28/2 http://www.redhat.com/support/errata/RHSA-2010-0474.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/516397/100/0/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/39719 http://www.vmware.com/security/advisories/VMSA-2011-0003.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2010/1857 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=585094 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/58254 https://oval.cisecurity.org/repository/search/definition/oval%3Aorg.mitre.oval%3Adef%3A9715 https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94038/ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/94664/

CVSS v3.1

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity HIGH

7.0

Attack Vector

LOCAL

Complexity

HIGH

Privileges

N/A

Interaction

NONE

Confidentiality

N/A

Integrity

N/A

Availability

N/A

Scope

UNCHANGED

RAW VECTOR CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

CVSS v2.0

Source Entity [email protected]

Severity MEDIUM

4.4

Access Vector

N/A

Authentication

N/A

RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns