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

CVE-2017-7374

CVE-2017-7374

Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/crypto/ in the Linux kernel before 4.10.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly gain privileges by revoking keyring keys being used for ext4, f2fs, or ubifs encryption, causing cryptographic transform objects to be freed prematurely.

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