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CVE-2011-4081

Published: May 24, 2012

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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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.

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20111027 Re: CVE request: kernel: crypto: ghash: null pointer deref if no key is set

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http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git%3Ba=commit%3Bh=7ed47b7d142ec99ad6880bbbec51e9f12b3af74c

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=749475

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v3.x/ChangeLog-3.1

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/7ed47b7d142ec99ad6880bbbec51e9f12b3af74c

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