CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2017-7618

Loop with Unreachable Exit Condition ('Infinite Loop')

Published: Apr 10, 2017 | Modified: Feb 14, 2023
CVSS 3.x
7.5
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.1/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.8 HIGH
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

crypto/ahash.c in the Linux kernel through 4.10.9 allows attackers to cause a denial of service (API operation calling its own callback, and infinite recursion) by triggering EBUSY on a full queue.

Weakness

The product contains an iteration or loop with an exit condition that cannot be reached, i.e., an infinite loop.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Linux_kernel Linux 3.15 (including) 3.16.44 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.17 (including) 3.18.50 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 3.19 (including) 4.1.40 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.2 (including) 4.4.63 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.5 (including) 4.9.24 (excluding)
Linux_kernel Linux 4.10 (including) 4.10.12 (excluding)

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