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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Nov 28, 2016· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2015-8970

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.

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