drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c in the Linux kernel 4.9.x before 4.9.6 interacts incorrectly...
Vulnerability Description
drivers/net/ieee802154/atusb.c 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 use of more than one virtual page for a DMA scatterlist.
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References
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/01/21/3
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.6
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95710
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1416110
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05a974efa4bdf6e2a150e3f27dc6fcf0a9ad5655
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05a974efa4bdf6e2a150e3f27dc6fcf0a9ad5655
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