vulnerability

Debian: CVE-2017-6951: linux -- security update

Severity
5
CVSS
(AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C)
Published
Mar 16, 2017
Added
May 1, 2017
Modified
Mar 30, 2026

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.

Solution

debian-upgrade-linux
Title
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