CVE-2017-17805

El algoritmo de cifrado Salsa20 en el kernel de Linux en versiones anteriores a la 4.14.8 no maneja correctamente las entradas de longitud cero, lo que permite a un atacante local capaz de utilizar la interfaz skcipher basada en AF_ALG (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) provocar una denegación de servicio (liberación de memoria no inicializada y fallo del kernel) o provocar otro impacto no especificado ejecutando una secuencia manipulada de llamadas al sistema que utilizan la API blkcipher_walk. Tanto la implementación genérica (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) como la implementación x86 (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) de Salsa20 eran vulnerables.

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel, before 4.14.8, does not correctly handle zero-length inputs. This allows a local attacker the ability to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface to cause a denial of service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or have an unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk API. Both the generic implementation (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 are vulnerable.

It was discovered that the netlink 802.11 configuration interface in the Linux kernel did not properly validate some attributes passed from userspace. A local attacker with the CAP_NET_ADMIN privilege could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. It was discovered that a buffer overflow existed in the ioctl handling code in the ISDN subsystem of the Linux kernel. A local attacker could use this to cause a denial of service or possibly execute arbitrary code. Various other issues were also addressed.