suse · CVE-2017-17806

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Priority: low Published: 2021-05-30 14:05:00 UTC Updated: 2025-05-17 23:40:33 UTC

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Tracker summary

CVE-2017-17806 severity low: SUSE including 237 source package names (cluster-md-kmp-default-4.12.14-120.1, cluster-md-kmp-default-4.4.103-6.38.1, …), 613 product×package rows across 98 product lines (SUSE CaaS Platform 4.0, SUSE CaaS Platform 4.5, … (98 product lines)): Fixed 343, Known Not Affected 270.

Description:

The HMAC implementation (crypto/hmac.c) in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not validate that the underlying cryptographic hash algorithm is unkeyed, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based hash interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_HASH) and the SHA-3 hash algorithm (CONFIG_CRYPTO_SHA3) to cause a kernel stack buffer overflow by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that encounter a missing SHA-3 initialization.

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