{
  "threat_severity" : "Important",
  "public_date" : "2005-08-04T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "security flaw",
    "id" : "1617685",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1617685"
  },
  "details" : [ "The KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING operation in the Linux kernel before 2.6.12.5 contains an error path that does not properly release the session management semaphore, which allows local users or remote attackers to cause a denial of service (semaphore hang) via a new session keyring (1) with an empty name string, (2) with a long name string, (3) with the key quota reached, or (4) ENOMEM." ],
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4",
    "release_date" : "2005-10-05T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2005:514",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:4",
    "package" : "kernel-0:2.6.9-22.EL"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2005-2098\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2005-2098" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2005-2098",
  "csaw" : false
}