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cvelistMitreCVELIST:CVE-2017-17805
HistoryDec 20, 2017 - 11:00 p.m.

CVE-2017-17805

2017-12-2023:00:00
mitre
www.cve.org

7.6 High

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

10.3%

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) to cause a denial of service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk API. Both the generic implementation (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 were vulnerable.

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