Detections
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CVE-2017-15951
high
Description
The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.13.10 does not correctly synchronize the actions of updating versus finding a key in the "negative" state to avoid a race condition, which allows local users to cause a denial of service or possibly have unspecified other impact via crafted system calls.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/363b02dab09b3226f3bd1420dad9c72b79a42a76
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/101621
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.13.10