Security Advisory

CVE-2015-1333

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2015-08-31 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 04:40:18
Assigner canonical
CVSS score not scored
State PUBLISHED

Description

Memory leak in the __key_link_end function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel before 4.1.4 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via many add_key system calls that refer to existing keys.