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Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2015 13:16:19 -0500
From: Marc Deslauriers <marc.deslauriers@...onical.com>
To: oss-security@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: CVE Request: Linux kernel crypto api unprivileged arbitrary module
 load

Hello,

The Crypto API in the Linux kernel before 3.19 allowed unprivileged users to
load arbitrary kernel modules.

Info:
https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/4/70
https://plus.google.com/+MathiasKrause/posts/PqFCo4bfrWu

Fixed by:
https://git.kernel.org/linus/5d26a105b5a7
https://git.kernel.org/linus/4943ba16bbc2
https://git.kernel.org/linus/3e14dcf7cb80

Could a CVE please be assigned to this issue?

Thanks,

Marc.

-- 
Marc Deslauriers
Ubuntu Security Engineer     | http://www.ubuntu.com/
Canonical Ltd.               | http://www.canonical.com/

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