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CVE-2017-18075

Published: Jan 24, 2018

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

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.

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

References

vdb-entry

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vendor-advisory

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https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.13

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vendor-advisory

x_refsource_REDHAT

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68

x_refsource_CONFIRM

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68

x_refsource_CONFIRM

vendor-advisory

x_refsource_UBUNTU

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