Not a U.S. government website. NDD is an independent vulnerability database by Volerion and is not affiliated with or endorsed by NIST or NVD.

CVE-2017-18075 Details

Description

crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.13 mishandles freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AF_ALG-based AEAD interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD) and pcrypt (CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCRYPT) to cause a denial of service (kfree of an incorrect pointer) or possibly have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

NIST: [email protected]CVSS-B:7.8 HIGHVector:CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

By selecting these links, you will be leaving this site. These are references gathered from the official CVE record and are not endorsed by Volerion.

URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68	CVE	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68	CVE	Patch
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/	CVE	Third Party Advisory
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.13	CVE	Issue TrackingRelease NotesVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102813	CVE	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68	[email protected]	Issue TrackingPatchThird Party Advisory
https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:2948	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/d76c68109f37cb85b243a1cf0f40313afd2bae68	[email protected]	Patch
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-1/	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://usn.ubuntu.com/3619-2/	[email protected]	Third Party Advisory
https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.14.13	[email protected]	Issue TrackingRelease NotesVendor Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/102813	[email protected]	Third Party AdvisoryVDB Entry

see all 14 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
CWE-763	Release of Invalid Pointer or Reference	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
linux linux kernel	>= 4.2, < 4.4.111 >= 4.5, < 4.9.76 >= 4.10, < 4.14.13
CPE cpe:2.3:o:linux:linux_kernel:::::::: Remediation No remediation found in references.
canonical ubuntu linux	14.04 16.04
CPE cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:14.04::::esm::: cpe:2.3:o:canonical:ubuntu_linux:16.04::::esm::: Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

10 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 17, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 7, 2023	Modified Analysis	[email protected]
Oct 3, 2019	CWE Remap	[email protected]
Oct 31, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 7, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 6, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Feb 9, 2018	Initial Analysis	[email protected]
Jan 27, 2018	CVE Modified	[email protected]