CVE-2017-7472
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-05-11 19:00
Modified
2024-08-05 16:04
Severity ?
Summary
The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9f838d104fed6f2f61d68164712e3204bf5271bIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00007.html
secalert@redhat.comhttp://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/11/1Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98422
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038471
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0151
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0152
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0181
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034862Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442086Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9f838d104fed6f2f61d68164712e3204bf5271bIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/1/235Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttps://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/3/724Broken Link
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42136/
secalert@redhat.comhttps://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.13Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
n/aLinux kernel before 4.10.13
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