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CVE-2017-2647

Published: Mar 31, 2017

Modified: Aug 5, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving a NULL value for a certain match field, related to the keyring_search_iterator function in keyring.c.

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

References

vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vdb-entry

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c06cfb08b88dfbe13be44a69ae2fdc3a7c902d81

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1428353

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c06cfb08b88dfbe13be44a69ae2fdc3a7c902d81

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