CVE-2017-2647 (GCVE-0-2017-2647)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-03-31 04:26 – Updated: 2024-08-05 14:02
VLAI?
Summary
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.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
URL Tags
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2437 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2444 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97258 vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c06cfb08… x_refsource_CONFIRM
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-1/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3849-2/ vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1428353 x_refsource_CONFIRM
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torva… x_refsource_CONFIRM
Date Public ?
2017-03-21 00:00
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