CVE-2017-18075
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Jan 24, 2018
- Updated
- Aug 5, 2024
- Reserved
- Jan 24, 2018
Description
crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.13 mishandles freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AF_ALG-based AEAD interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD) and pcrypt (CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCRYPT) to cause a denial of service (kfree of an incorrect pointer) or possibly have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls.
Scores
The record has no CVSS score.
Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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n/an/a |
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References
- 102813vdb-entry
- USN-3619-2vendor-advisory
- https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.13
- RHSA-2018:2948vendor-advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68
- USN-3619-1vendor-advisory
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