Vulnerability in Linux Kernel 4.9.x and 4.10.x: Denial of Service and Memory Corruption via CONFIG_VMAP_STACK

CVE-2017-8065 · HIGH Severity

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

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.

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