cve-2017-15116
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-11-30 18:00
Modified
2024-08-05 19:50
Severity ?
Summary
The rngapi_reset function in crypto/rng.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6Patch, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676
secalert@redhat.comhttps://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485815Issue Tracking, Permissions Required
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514609Issue Tracking
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6Patch, Vendor Advisory
Impacted products
n/aLinux kernel
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