Vigil@nce - Linux kernel: out-of-bounds memory reading via crypto_authenc_extractkeys
July 2020 by Vigil@nce
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SYNTHESIS OF THE VULNERABILITY
Impacted products: Linux.
Severity: 1/4.
Consequences: data reading, denial of service on server.
Provenance: document.
Confidence: confirmed by the editor (5/5).
Creation date: 23/06/2020.
DESCRIPTION OF THE VULNERABILITY
An attacker can force a read at an invalid address via
crypto_authenc_extractkeys() of the Linux kernel, in order to
trigger a denial of service, or to obtain sensitive information.
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