CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-15274

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2017-10-12 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-10-12
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

security/keys/keyctl.c in the Linux kernel before 4.11.5 does not consider the case of a NULL payload in conjunction with a nonzero length value, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a crafted add_key or keyctl system call, a different vulnerability than CVE-2017-12192.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.11.4)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References