The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) to cause a denial of service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk API. Both the generic implementation (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 were vulnerable.
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MITRE
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2017-12-20T23:00:00
Updated: 2024-08-05T20:59:17.879Z
Reserved: 2017-12-20T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2017-17805
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NVD
Status : Modified
Published: 2017-12-20T23:29:00.327
Modified: 2024-11-21T03:18:42.537
Link: CVE-2017-17805
Redhat