CVE-2017-15116

medium

Description

The rngapi_reset function in crypto/rng.c in the Linux kernel before 4.2 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference).

References

https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1514609

https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1485815

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:1062

https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2018:0676

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2017-11-30

Updated: 2025-04-20

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00046