CVE-2017-17805 Information

Description

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.

CVSS Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Reference

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ecaaab5649781c5a0effdaf298a925063020500e http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00006.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00007.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00008.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00014.html http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00016.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102291 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3083 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:3096 https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2019:2473 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ecaaab5649781c5a0effdaf298a925063020500e https://lists.debian.org/debian-lts-announce/2018/01/msg00004.html https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3617-3/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-1/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-2/ https://usn.ubuntu.com/3632-1/ https://www.debian.org/security/2017/dsa-4073 https://www.debian.org/security/2018/dsa-4082 https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.8

Attack Complexity

LOW

Privileges Required

LOW

User Interaction Required

LOW

Scope

NONE

Confidentiality Impact

UNCHANGED

Integrity Impact

HIGH

Availability Impact

HIGH

Base Score

HIGH

Base Severity

7.8