Published: 14/10/2017 Updated: 07/11/2023

CVSS v2 Base Score: 4.9 | Impact Score: 6.9 | Exploitability Score: 3.9

CVSS v3 Base Score: 5.5 | Impact Score: 3.6 | Exploitability Score: 1.8

VMScore: 436

Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel up to and including 4.13.7 mishandles use of add_key for a key that already exists but is uninstantiated, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a crafted system call.

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Synopsis Important: kernel-alt security, bug fix, and enhancement update Type/Severity Security Advisory: Important Topic An update for kernel-alt is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact of Important A Common Vulnerability S ...

Incorrect updates of uninstantiated keys crash the kernelA vulnerability was found in the key management subsystem of the Linux kernel An update on an uninstantiated key could cause a kernel panic, leading to denial of service (DoS) (CVE-2017-15299) Memory leak when merging buffers in SCSI IO vectorsIt was found that in the Linux kernel through v ...

Several security issues were fixed in the Linux kernel ...

CWE-476 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1498016 https://marc.info/?t=150783958600011&r=1&w=2 https://marc.info/?t=150654188100001&r=1&w=2 https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2017/12/msg00004.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654 https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-2/https://usn.ubuntu.com/3798-1/https://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel%40vger.kernel.org/msg1499828.html https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0654 https://nvd.nist.gov https://usn.ubuntu.com/3485-1/https://alas.aws.amazon.com/ALAS-2017-925.html

CVE-2017-15299

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