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Status: WontFix
Owner:
groeck@chromium.org
Closed: Dec 2017
Cc:
chromeos-kernel-security-bug-access@google.com
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OS: Chrome
Pri: 2
Type: Bug-Security



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CVE-2017-15116 CrOS: Vulnerability reported in Linux kernel

Project Member Reported by vomit.go...@appspot.gserviceaccount.com, Dec 21 2017 
VOMIT (go/vomit) has received an external vulnerability report for the Linux kernel. 

Advisory: CVE-2017-15116
  Details: http://vomit.googleplex.com/advisory?id=CVE/CVE-2017-15116
  CVSS severity score: 4.9/10.0
  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).



This bug was filed by http://go/vomit
Please contact us at vomit-team@google.com if you need any assistance.

Comment 1 by groeck@chromium.org, Dec 21 2017

Labels: Security_Severity-Medium Security_Impact-Stable Pri-2
Owner: groeck@chromium.org
Status: WontFix (was: Untriaged)
Upstream commit 94f1bb15bed84ad6c893916b7e7b9db6f1d7eec6 ("crypto: rng - Remove old low-level rng interface"). Potentially affects chromeos-3.18 and older. Not fixed in affected upstream stable releases, and the fix would be expensive and risky. WontFix.
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