Security Advisory

CVE-2016-10147

CVE vulnerability detail - eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-01-18 21:00:00

Last updated 2024-08-06 03:14:42

Assigner redhat

CVSS score not scored

State PUBLISHED

Description

crypto/mcryptd.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.15 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) by using an AF_ALG socket with an incompatible algorithm, as demonstrated by mcryptd(md5).

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