Arbitrary Kernel Module Loading Vulnerability in Linux Crypto API

CVE-2014-9644 · LOW Severity

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

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AF_ALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salg_name field, as demonstrated by the vfat(aes) expression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-7421.

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