FKIE_CVE-2017-17805
Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2017-12-20 23:29 - Updated: 2026-06-17 01:11
Severity
Summary
The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) to cause a denial of service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk API. Both the generic implementation (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 were vulnerable.
References
Impacted products
| Vendor | Product | Version | |
|---|---|---|---|
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| linux | linux_kernel | * | |
| debian | debian_linux | 8.0 | |
| debian | debian_linux | 9.0 | |
| opensuse | leap | 42.2 | |
| opensuse_project | leap | 42.3 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | 12 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_desktop | 12 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 11 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 11 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 12 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server | 12 | |
| suse | linux_enterprise_server_for_raspberry_pi | 12 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 12.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 14.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 16.04 | |
| canonical | ubuntu_linux | 17.10 |
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