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Vulnerability Details CVE-2017-17805

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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.0
EPSS Ranking 10.4%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 7.8
CVSS v2 Score 7.2
References
Products affected by CVE-2017-17805


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