CVE-2016-10147 (GCVE-0-2016-10147)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-01-18 21:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 03:14
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
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).
Severity
5.5 (Medium)
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
9 references
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| http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/0… | mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST |
| http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95677 | vdb-entryx_refsource_BID |
| https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1404200 | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/Chang… | x_refsource_CONFIRM |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:2077 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
| https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017:1842 | vendor-advisoryx_refsource_REDHAT |
Date Public
2016-12-15 00:00
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- Not patched: The vulnerability was not observed as successfully patched by the user who reported the sighting.
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The MITRE ATT&CK techniques below are AI-generated suggestions, inferred from the description of the
vulnerability by the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-classification-roberta-base
model, served locally by ML-Gateway.
They have not been verified by an analyst and are provided for guidance only.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
The approach is described in our paper Mapping CVEs to MITRE ATT&CK Techniques: A Curated Gold-Set Classifier and the Limits of LLM-Assisted Label Expansion.
Browse all ATT&CK techniques and the vulnerabilities related to each.
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Related by attack behaviour
Vulnerabilities whose description is nearest to this one in the vector space of the CIRCL/vulnerability-attack-technique-biencoder model. This is a similarity search over the bi-encoder space (plain cosine), not a classification, and it has no measured accuracy.
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