It was found that the Linux kernel's keys subsystem did not correctly garbage collect uninstantiated keyrings. A local attacker could use this flaw to crash the system or, potentially, escalate their privileges on the system.
Platform | Package | Release Date | Advisory |
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Amazon Linux 1 | kernel | 2015-11-23 13:41 | ALAS-2015-610 |
Score Type | Score | Vector | |
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Amazon Linux | CVSSv2 | 7.2 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
NVD | CVSSv2 | 2.1 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P |