Name | CVE-2014-9644 |
Description | 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. |
Source | CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more) |
References | DSA-3170-1 |
Vulnerable and fixed packages
The table below lists information on source packages.
Source Package | Release | Version | Status |
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linux (PTS) | jessie, jessie (lts) | 3.16.84-1 | fixed |
| stretch (security) | 4.9.320-2 | fixed |
| stretch (lts), stretch | 4.9.320-3 | fixed |
| buster (security), buster, buster (lts) | 4.19.316-1 | fixed |
| bullseye (security), bullseye | 5.10.223-1 | fixed |
| bookworm | 6.1.106-3 | fixed |
| bookworm (security) | 6.1.99-1 | fixed |
| trixie | 6.10.6-1 | fixed |
| sid | 6.10.7-1 | fixed |
The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.
Package | Type | Release | Fixed Version | Urgency | Origin | Debian Bugs |
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linux | source | wheezy | 3.2.65-1+deb7u2 | | DSA-3170-1 | |
linux | source | (unstable) | 3.16.7-ckt4-2 | | | |
linux-2.6 | source | squeeze | (not affected) | | | |
linux-2.6 | source | (unstable) | (unfixed) | | | |
Notes
[squeeze] - linux-2.6 <not-affected> (Introduced in v2.6.38-rc1)
https://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=4943ba16bbc2 (v3.19-rc1)