CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-10153
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-06
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-399
Description
The crypto scatterlist API in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging reliance on earlier net/ceph/crypto.c code.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel 4.9
• linux linux kernel 4.9.1
• linux linux kernel 4.9.2
• linux linux kernel 4.9.3
• linux linux kernel 4.9.4
• linux linux kernel 4.9.5
Related
Weakness · not in database (1)
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95713 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416101 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95713 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416101 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory