PT-2017-13875 · Linux+3 · Linux Kernel+3

Published 2015-10-06 · Updated 2023-02-12 · CVE-2017-15116

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v3.1

5.5

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions Linux kernel versions prior to 4.2

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, specifically a NULL pointer dereference, by exploiting the rngapi reset function in crypto/rng.c.

Recommendations For versions prior to 4.2, update to version 4.2 or later to resolve the issue.

Fix

DoS

NULL Pointer Dereference

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-476

Related Identifiers

ALT-PU-2015-1834

ALT-PU-2016-1485

CESA-2018_1062

CVE-2017-15116

RHSA-2018:0676

RHSA-2018:1062

RHSA-2018_0676

RHSA-2018_1062

Affected Products

Alt Linux

Centos

Linux Kernel

Red Hat

References · 15

• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2017-15116 · Vendor Advisory
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/UBUNTU-CVE-2017-15116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://ubuntu.com/security/CVE-2017-15116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2017-15116 · Security Note
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/DEBIAN-CVE-2017-15116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-15116 · Security Note
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676 · Vendor Advisory
• https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062 · Vendor Advisory
• https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2017-15116 · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-4108.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://linux.oracle.com/errata/ELSA-2018-1062.html · Vendor Advisory
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514609 · Note
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485815 · Note