Denial Of Service

Linux kernel is vulnerable to denial of service attacks. A user could exploit this flaw using an AFALG socket with an incompatible algorithm, as demonstrated by mcryptdmd5 causing denial of service conditions. Affected is the file crypto/mcryptd.c...

CVE-2016-10147

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 AFALG socket with an incompatible algorithm, as demonstrated by mcryptdmd5...