Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's crypto/mcryptd.c

Denial of Service Vulnerability in Linux Kernel's crypto/mcryptd.c

CVE-2016-10147 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

crypto/mcryptd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by using an AF_ALG socket with an incompatible algorithm, as demonstrated by mcryptd(md5).

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