ghsa-77r7-v55r-g5r7
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-13 01:46
Modified
2025-04-20 03:37
Severity ?
5.5 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2017-7472"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-404"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2017-05-11T19:29:00Z",
    "severity": "MODERATE"
  },
  "details": "The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.",
  "id": "GHSA-77r7-v55r-g5r7",
  "modified": "2025-04-20T03:37:27Z",
  "published": "2022-05-13T01:46:58Z",
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      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-7472"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/c9f838d104fed6f2f61d68164712e3204bf5271b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0151"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0152"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0181"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2017-7472"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1034862"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1442086"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/1/235"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://lkml.org/lkml/2017/4/3/724"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/42136"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.10.13"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=c9f838d104fed6f2f61d68164712e3204bf5271b"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2018-01/msg00007.html"
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    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/05/11/1"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/98422"
    },
    {
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      "url": "http://www.securitytracker.com/id/1038471"
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      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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