CVE-2015-8970
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Nov 4, 2016
Description
crypto/algif_skcipher.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.2 does not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AF_ALG socket before an accept system call is processed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted application that does not supply a key, related to the lrw_crypt function in crypto/lrw.c.
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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
- RHSA-2017:2437vendor-advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.2
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dd504589577d8e8e70f51f997ad487a4cb6c026f
- RHSA-2017:2444vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:2077vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1842vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/dd504589577d8e8e70f51f997ad487a4cb6c026f
- [oss-security] 20161104 Re: CVE request -- linux kernel: crypto: GPF in lrw_crypt caused by null-derefmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1386286
- 94217vdb-entry
- https://groups.google.com/forum/#%21msg/syzkaller/frb2XrB5aWk/xCXzkIBcDAAJ
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