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CVE-2017-17807
LOW · CVSS 3.3
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-12-20T23:29:00.423 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:11:41.227

Summary

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.14.6 omitted an access-control check when adding a key to the current task's "default request-key keyring" via the request_key() system call, allowing a local user to use a sequence of crafted system calls to add keys to a keyring with only Search permission (not Write permission) to that keyring, related to construct_get_dest_keyring() in security/keys/request_key.c.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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