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LIN7-7234 : Security Advisory - linux - CVE-2015-8970

Created: Dec 15, 2016    Updated: Sep 8, 2018
Resolved Date: Jan 10, 2017
Found In Version: 7.0.0.21
Fix Version: 7.0.0.23
Severity: Standard
Applicable for: Wind River Linux 7
Component/s: Kernel

Description

crypto/algif_skcipher.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.2 does not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AF_ALG socket before an accept system call is processed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted application that does not supply a key, related to the lrw_crypt function in crypto/lrw.c.

http://web.nvd.nist.gov/view/vuln/detail?vulnId=CVE-2015-8970

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