CVE-2016-10147
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 18, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 18, 2017
Description
crypto/mcryptd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by using an AF_ALG socket with an incompatible algorithm, as demonstrated by mcryptd(md5).
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
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=48a992727d82cb7db076fa15d372178743b1f4cd
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/48a992727d82cb7db076fa15d372178743b1f4cd
- [linux-crypto] 20161202 Crash in crypto mcryptdmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20170117 CVE request -- linux kernel: crash by spawning mcrypt(alg) with incompatible algorithmmailing-list
- 95677vdb-entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404200
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.15
- RHSA-2017:2077vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:1842vendor-advisory
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