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CVE-2017-2647

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer derefere

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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.

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access.redhat.com

securityfocus.com

GitHub · torvalds/linux

usn.ubuntu.com

bugzilla.redhat.com

git.kernel.org