CVE-2017-17806

The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not validate that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is unkeyed…

published December 20, 2017

CVSS
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EPSS
1%
Percentile
45.6
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not validate that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is unkeyed, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based hash interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH) and the SHA-3 hash algorithm (CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3) to cause a kernel stack buffer overflow by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that encounter a missing SHA-3 initialization.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS
Not scored
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00557 · 45.6th percentile
Published
2017-12-20T23:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 20 DEC 23:00Z
    The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not validate that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is unkeyed…
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