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CVE-2013-1792

Description

Race condition in the install_user_keyrings function in security/keys/process_keys.c in the Linux kernel before 3.8.3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via crafted keyctl system calls that trigger keyring operations in simultaneous threads.

POC

Reference

- http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDVSA-2013:176

- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1788-1

- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-1797-1

Github

- https://github.com/wcventure/PERIOD