CVE-2016-10153: Linux Kernel

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The crypto scatterlist API 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 reliance on earlier net/ceph/crypto.c code.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: version 4.9 only; version 4.9.1 only; version 4.9.2 only; version 4.9.3 only; version 4.9.4 only; version 4.9.5 only

Published 2017-02-06. Last modified 2026-06-17.