CVSS 3.0
5.5 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HCVE-2015-8970
Medium (5.5) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
crypto/algif_skcipher.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.2 does not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AF_ALG socket before an accept system call is processed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted application that does not supply a key, related to the lrw_crypt function in crypto/lrw.c.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 44% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-476
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=dd504589577d8e8e70f51f997ad487a4cb6c026f
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.4.2
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/11/04/3
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/94217
- https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842