CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-2647

7.8 HIGH Published 2017-03-31 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-03-31
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-476

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving a NULL value for a certain match field, related to the keyring_search_iterator function in keyring.c.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 3.17.8)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-476 NULL Pointer Dereference weakness

References