CVE-2017-6951

Publication date

2017-03-16 18:00:00

Family

mitre

State

PUBLISHED

Description

The keyring_search_aux function in security/keys/keyring.c in the Linux kernel through 3.14.79 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and OOPS) via a request_key system call for the "dead" type.