Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 4.9.x: Denial of Service and Memory Corruption via Crypto Scatterlist API

CVE-2016-10153 · HIGH Severity

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

The crypto scatterlist API in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging reliance on earlier net/ceph/crypto.c code.

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