CVE-2017-6951
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CVE Details
| Release Date: | 2018-02-26 | |
| Impact: | None | What is this? |
Description
The keyring_search_aux function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linuxkernel through 3.14.79 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a request_key system call for the dead type.
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NOTE: The following CVSS metrics and score provided are preliminary and subject to review.
CVSS v2 metrics
| Base Score: | 4.9 |
| Vector String: | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
| Version: | 2.0 |
| Attack Vector: | Local |
| Attack Complexity: | Low |
| Authentication: | None |
| Confidentiality Impact: | None |
| Integrity Impact: | None |
| Availability Impact: | Complete |
Errata information
| Platform | Errata | Release Date |
| Oracle Linux version 5 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2018-4041 | 2018-02-26 |
| Oracle Linux version 6 (kernel-uek) | ELSA-2018-4041 | 2018-02-26 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2017-1842 | 2017-08-07 |
| Oracle Linux version 7 (kernel) | ELSA-2017-1842-1 | 2017-08-15 |
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