UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7374

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    UBUNTU-CVE-2017-7374

    Published: 31 Mar 2017Last Modified: 22 Apr 2026
    Upstream:
    CVE-2017-7374
    Aliases:
    USN-3265-1
    USN-3265-2
    USN-3342-1

    Summary:

    Details: Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/crypto/ in the Linux kernel before 4.10.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly gain privileges by revoking keyring keys being used for ext4, f2fs, or ubifs encryption, causing cryptographic transform objects to be freed prematurely.

    References: https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-7374, http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=1b53cf9815bb4744958d41f3795d5d5a1d365e2d, https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.7, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3265-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3265-2, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3342-1, https://ubuntu.com/security/notices/USN-3342-2, https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-7374

    Affected packages

    Package

    Name: linux-lts-xenial

    Purl: pkg:deb/ubuntu/[email protected]~14.04.1?arch=source&distro=trusty

    Affected ranges

    Type: ECOSYSTEM

    Events:

    Introduced- 0
    Fixed -4.4.0-75.96~14.04.1

    Affected versions

    4.4.0-13.29~14.04.1
    4.4.0-14.30~14.04.2
    4.4.0-15.31~14.04.1
    4.4.0-18.34~14.04.1
    4.4.0-21.37~14.04.1
    4.4.0-22.39~14.04.1
    4.4.0-22.40~14.04.1
    4.4.0-24.43~14.04.1
    4.4.0-28.47~14.04.1
    4.4.0-31.50~14.04.1
    4.4.0-34.53~14.04.1
    4.4.0-36.55~14.04.1
    4.4.0-38.57~14.04.1
    4.4.0-42.62~14.04.1
    4.4.0-45.66~14.04.1
    4.4.0-47.68~14.04.1
    4.4.0-51.72~14.04.1
    4.4.0-53.74~14.04.1
    4.4.0-57.78~14.04.1
    4.4.0-59.80~14.04.1
    4.4.0-62.83~14.04.1
    4.4.0-63.84~14.04.2
    4.4.0-64.85~14.04.1
    4.4.0-66.87~14.04.1
    4.4.0-67.88~14.04.1
    4.4.0-70.91~14.04.1
    4.4.0-71.92~14.04.1
    4.4.0-72.93~14.04.1

    Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Attack Vector
    Network
    Adjacent
    Local
    Physical
    Privileges Required
    None
    Low
    High
    User Interaction
    None
    Required
    Scope
    Unchanged
    Changed
    Confidentiality
    None
    Low
    High
    Integrity
    None
    Low
    High
    Availability
    None
    Low
    High