Security Advisory
CVE-2016-10153
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability Description
The crypto scatterlist API in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging reliance on earlier net/ceph/crypto.c code.
Published Date
February 6, 2017
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory