CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-18075

7.8 HIGH Published 2018-01-24 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2018-01-24
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-763

Description

crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.13 mishandles freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AF_ALG-based AEAD interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD) and pcrypt (CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCRYPT) to cause a denial of service (kfree of an incorrect pointer) or possibly have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.111) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.76) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.14.13) • canonical ubuntu linux 14.04 • canonical ubuntu linux 16.04

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-763 Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference weakness

References