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CVE-2017-2647
HIGH · CVSS 7.8
EPSS exploitation probability: 0%
Published 2017-03-31T04:59:00.157 · Last modified 2026-06-17T01:16:35.130

Summary

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving a NULL value for a certain match field, related to the keyring_search_iterator function in keyring.c.

Affected products

linux — linux_kernel

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References

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