CVE-2017-18075 (GCVE-0-2017-18075)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2018-01-24 10:00 – Updated: 2024-08-05 21:13
VLAI
Summary
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.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
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https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/Chan… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d76c6810… x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
Date Public
2018-01-24 00:00
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