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Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published May 11, 2017· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2017-7472

CVE-2017-7472

Description

The KEYS subsystem in the Linux kernel before 4.10.13 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via a series of KEY_REQKEY_DEFL_THREAD_KEYRING keyctl_set_reqkey_keyring calls.

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