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High severity7.8NVD Advisory· Published Mar 31, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-2647

CVE-2017-2647

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 3.18 allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and system crash) via vectors involving a NULL value for a certain match field, related to the keyring_search_iterator function in keyring.c.

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