cve/2015/CVE-2015-8970.md

CVE-2015-8970

Description

crypto/algif_skcipher.c in the Linux kernel before 4.4.2 does not verify that a setkey operation has been performed on an AF_ALG socket before an accept system call is processed, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via a crafted application that does not supply a key, related to the lrw_crypt function in crypto/lrw.c.

POC

Reference

No PoCs from references.

Github

• https://github.com/Live-Hack-CVE/CVE-2015-8970