CVE-2013-1792

Race condition in the install_user_keyrings function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via crafted keyctl system calls that trigger keyring operations in simultaneous threads.

Date published : 2013-03-22

http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0da9dfdd2cd9889201bc6f6f43580c99165cd087

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.8.3