CVE-2016-10147

Publication date

2017-01-18 21:00:00

Family

redhat

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).