Tracker / CVE-2017-18075
CVE-2017-18075
High 7.8
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.
Affected products and versions
| canonical | ubuntu_linux |
|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.10 → 4.14.13 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.2 → 4.4.111 |
| linux | linux_kernel · 4.5 → 4.9.76 |
Analysis
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