CVE-2011-4081
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- May 24, 2012
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 18, 2011
Description
crypto/ghash-generic.c in the Linux kernel before 3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) or possibly have unspecified other impact by triggering a failed or missing ghash_setkey function call, followed by a (1) ghash_update function call or (2) ghash_final function call, as demonstrated by a write operation on an AF_ALG socket.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20111027 Re: CVE request: kernel: crypto: ghash: null pointer deref if no key is setmailing-list
- http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed47b7d142ec99ad6880bbbec51e9f12b3af74c
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749475
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7ed47b7d142ec99ad6880bbbec51e9f12b3af74c
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