Security Advisory
CVE-2016-10154
5.5
MEDIUM
Vulnerability Description
The smbhash function in fs/cifs/smbencrypt.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.1 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 use of more than one virtual page for a scatterlist.
Published Date
February 6, 2017
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory