UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15116
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Summary:
Details: The rngapi_reset function in crypto/rng.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).
References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15116, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485815, https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514609, https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15116
Affected packages
Package
Name: linux
Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/linux?arch=source&distro=esm-infra-legacy%2Ftrusty
Affected ranges
Type: ECOSYSTEM
Events:
Introduced- 0
Fixed -None
Affected versions
3.11.0-12.19
Common Vulnerability Scoring System
Attack Vector
Network
Adjacent
Local
Physical
Privileges Required
None
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High
User Interaction
None
Required
Scope
Unchanged
Changed
Confidentiality
None
Low
High
Integrity
None
Low
High
Availability
None
Low
High
