CVEvulnerability

CVE-2017-7618

7.5 HIGH Published 2017-04-10 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2017-04-10
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
7.5 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-835

Description

crypto/ahash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (API operation calling its own callback, and infinite recursion) by triggering EBUSY on a full queue.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (>= 3.15 < 3.16.44) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.17 < 3.18.50) • linux linux kernel (>= 3.19 < 4.1.40) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.2 < 4.4.63) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.5 < 4.9.24) • linux linux kernel (>= 4.10 < 4.10.12)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-835 Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition weakness

References