From: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Cc: Justin Forbes <jmforbes@linuxtx.org>,
Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@arm.linux.org.uk>,
"Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>,
Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>,
Chuck Wolber <chuckw@quantumlinux.com>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk,
dhowells@redhat.com
Subject: [patch 7/7] key: plug request_key_auth memleak
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 16:55:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051007235508.GH23111@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20051007235353.GA23111@kroah.com>
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From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Plug request_key_auth memleak. This can be triggered by unprivileged
users, so is local DoS.
Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
security/keys/request_key_auth.c | 1 +
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+)
--- linux-2.6.13.y.orig/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
+++ linux-2.6.13.y/security/keys/request_key_auth.c
@@ -96,6 +96,7 @@ static void request_key_auth_destroy(str
kenter("{%d}", key->serial);
key_put(rka->target_key);
+ kfree(rka);
} /* end request_key_auth_destroy() */
--
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-10-07 23:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20051007234348.631583000@press.kroah.org>
2005-10-07 23:53 ` [patch 0/7] -stable review Greg KH
2005-10-07 23:54 ` [patch 1/7] ieee1394/sbp2: fixes for hot-unplug and module unloading Greg KH
2005-10-08 0:18 ` Grant Coady
2005-10-08 0:21 ` [stable] " Chris Wright
2005-10-08 10:18 ` Stefan Richter
2005-10-07 23:54 ` [patch 2/7] orinoco: Information leakage due to incorrect padding Greg KH
2005-10-07 23:54 ` [patch 3/7] [TCP]: BIC coding bug in Linux 2.6.13 Greg KH
2005-10-07 23:54 ` [patch 4/7] sysfs: Signedness problem Greg KH
2005-10-08 0:02 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-08 0:07 ` [stable] " Greg KH
2005-10-08 0:12 ` Chris Wright
2005-10-08 0:14 ` Dave Jones
2005-10-08 0:08 ` Chris Wright
2005-10-07 23:54 ` [patch 5/7] Fix userland FPU state corruption Greg KH
2005-10-07 23:55 ` [patch 6/7] Avoid 'names_cache' memory leak with CONFIG_AUDITSYSCALL Greg KH
2005-10-07 23:55 ` Greg KH [this message]
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