CVE-2009-0031

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."

Date published : 2009-01-20

http://git2.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=0d54ee1c7850a954026deec4cd4885f331da35cc

http://support.avaya.com/elmodocs2/security/ASA-2009-114.htm