CVE-2017-6951
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-03-16 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 15:49
Severity ?
Summary
The keyring_search_aux function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel 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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