CVE-2011-2184

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

The key_replace_session_keyring function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 2.6.39.1 does not initialize a certain structure member, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a KEYCTL_SESSION_TO_PARENT argument to the keyctl function, a different vulnerability than CVE-2010-2960.

Find out more about CVE-2011-2184 from the MITRE CVE dictionary dictionary and NIST NVD.

Statement

Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of Linux kernel as
shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4, 5, 6, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG as
they did not backport the upstream commit 47a150edc2a that introduced this issue.

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