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CVE-2017-7374

HIGH · CVSS 7.8 EPSS 0.80% Public Exploit

Source: NVD + CISA KEV + EPSS (historical backfill) · Published 2017-03-31 · Last synced 2026-08-04

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CVE
CVE-2017-7374
Severity
HIGH
CVSS
7.8
EPSS
0.80%
Linux

Original NVD Description

Use-after-free vulnerability in fs/crypto/ in the Linux kernel before 4.10.7 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference) or possibly gain privileges by revoking keyring keys being used for ext4, f2fs, or ubifs encryption, causing cryptographic transform objects to be freed prematurely.

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