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CVE-2016-10154

Published: Feb 6, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

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Description

The smbhash function in fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.1 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging use of more than one virtual page for a scatterlist.

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

References

vdb-entry

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[oss-security] 20170120 Re: CVE REQUEST: linux kernel: process with pgid zero able to crash kernel

mailing-list

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http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.1

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/06deeec77a5a689cc94b21a8a91a76e42176685d

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=06deeec77a5a689cc94b21a8a91a76e42176685d

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416104

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