CVE-2014-0102

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.2 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2014-03-11 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-310

Description

The keyring_detect_cycle_iterator function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel through 3.13.6 does not properly determine whether keyrings are identical, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) via crafted keyctl commands.

Affected products

Linux kernel: through 3.13.6

References

http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/27/507
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=425013&p=2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/04/21
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072419
http://lkml.org/lkml/2014/2/27/507
http://www.kernelhub.org/?msg=425013&p=2
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2014/03/04/21
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1072419

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