Vulnerability Report

CVE-2014-9529

Title: Redhat Enterprise Linux Desktop Path Traversal / LFI

Arbitrary File Access

Proof Of Concept

No public PoC currently indexed for CVE-2014-9529.

CWE Category CWE-362
Published Date Jan 09, 2015
Modified Date May 06, 2026
Exploit Status Not Found
Score 6.9 CVSS v2.0
Exploit Probability (EPSS)
0.11%

Vulnerability Summary

CVE-2014-9529: 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.

Impacted Vendors

F
fedoraproject 1
S
suse 1
L
linux 1
D
debian 1
R
redhat 7
U
ubuntu 2
C
canonical 1
O
opensuse 1

Reference Links

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 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1137.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3128 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/06/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71880 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2511-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2512-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2516-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179813 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99641 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a3a8784454692dd72e5d5d34dcdab17b4420e74c 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 http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1137.html http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2015-1138.html http://www.debian.org/security/2015/dsa-3128 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2015:058 http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2015/01/06/10 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/71880 http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1036763 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2511-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2512-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2513-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2514-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2515-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2516-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2517-1 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-2518-1 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1179813 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/99641 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a3a8784454692dd72e5d5d34dcdab17b4420e74c
CVSS v2.0
Source Entity [email protected]
Severity MEDIUM
6.9
Access Vector
N/A
Authentication
N/A
RAW VECTOR AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Associated Attack Patterns (CAPEC)

Total: Patterns

CVE-2014-9529 Exploits & PoCs (Proof Of Concept)

No public PoCs found in our database for this CVE.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data updated via NVD.

MODIFIED

Vulnerability data or affected products updated.

PUBLISHED

Vulnerability first announced in NVD.

Attack Vector Matrix

Access Vector N/A
Complexity N/A
Privileges N/A
Interaction NONE
CVSS Vector String AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Affected Stack

No specific products linked.