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Tracker / CVE-2017-9211

CVE-2017-9211

Medium 5.5

The crypto_skcipher_init_tfm function in crypto/skcipher.c in the Linux kernel through 4.11.2 relies on a setkey function that lacks a key-size check, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) via a crafted application.

Affected products and versions

linux linux_kernel · … → 4.11.2

Analysis

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