CVE-2016-10153

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2017-02-06 · updated 2026-06-17
Weakness: CWE-399

Description

The crypto scatterlist API in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly with the CONFIG_VMAP_STACK option, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash or memory corruption) or possibly have unspecified other impact by leveraging reliance on earlier net/ceph/crypto.c code.

Affected products

Linux kernel: 4.9, 4.9.1, 4.9.2, 4.9.3, 4.9.4, 4.9.5

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95713
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416101
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95713
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416101
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/a45f795c65b479b4ba107b6ccde29b896d51ee98

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