File _patchinfo of Package patchinfo.6756

<patchinfo incident="6756">
  <issue id="1077404" tracker="bnc">VUL-0: CVE-2017-18075: kernel live patch: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel before 4.14.13 mishandles freeing instances,allowing a local user able to access the AF_ALG-based AEAD interface(CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD) and pcrypt (CONFIG_CRY</issue>
  <issue id="2017-18075" tracker="cve" />
  <category>security</category>
  <rating>important</rating>
  <packager>mbenes</packager>
  <description>This update for the Linux Kernel 4.4.49-92_14 fixes one issue.

The following security issue was fixed:

- CVE-2017-18075: crypto/pcrypt.c in the Linux kernel mishandled freeing instances, allowing a local user able to access the AF_ALG-based AEAD interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_AEAD) and pcrypt (CONFIG_CRYPTO_PCRYPT) to cause a denial of service (kfree of an incorrect pointer) or possibly have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls (bsc#1077404).
</description>
<summary>Security update for the Linux Kernel (Live Patch 6 for SLE 12 SP2)</summary>
</patchinfo>