CVEvulnerability

CVE-2015-8970

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-11-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-11-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-476

Description

crypto/algif_skcipher.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.2 does not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AF_ALG socket before an accept system call is processed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted application that does not supply a key, related to the lrw_crypt function in crypto/lrw.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.4.1)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References