CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-17805

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-12-20 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-12-20
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/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-20

Description

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) to cause a denial of service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk API. Both the generic implementation (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 were vulnerable.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 2.6.25 < 3.2.97) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.3 < 3.16.52) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.89) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.49) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.107) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.71) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.8) • debian debian linux 8.0 • debian debian linux 9.0 • opensuse leap 42.2 • opensuse project leap 42.3 • suse linux enterprise desktop 12 • suse linux enterprise server 11 • suse linux enterprise server 12 • suse linux enterprise server for raspberry pi 12 • canonical ubuntu linux 12.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 17.10

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-20 Improper Input Validation weakness

References