Denial of Service and Memory Corruption Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 4.9.x

CVE-2016-10154 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The smbhash function in fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.1 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 scatterlist.

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