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Tracker / CVE-2011-4081

CVE-2011-4081

Medium 5.5

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.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 3.1

Analysis

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