CVE-2017-8065 Information

Description

crypto/ccm.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x through 4.10.12 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 use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.

CVSS Vector

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

Reference

http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/04/16/4 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/97994 https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=3b30460c5b0ed762be75a004e924ec3f8711e032 https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/3b30460c5b0ed762be75a004e924ec3f8711e032

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