CVE-2014-9644 (GCVE-0-2014-9644)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2015-03-02 11:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 13:47
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Summary
The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.18.5 allows local users to load arbitrary kernel modules via a bind system call for an AF_ALG socket with a parenthesized module template expression in the salg_name field, as demonstrated by the vfat(aes) expression, a different vulnerability than CVE-2013-7421.
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