### [CVE-2017-17805](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2017-17805)
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### Description

The Salsa20 encryption algorithm in the Linux kernel before 4.14.8 does not correctly handle zero-length inputs, allowing a local attacker able to use the AF_ALG-based skcipher interface (CONFIG_CRYPTO_USER_API_SKCIPHER) to cause a denial of service (uninitialized-memory free and kernel crash) or have unspecified other impact by executing a crafted sequence of system calls that use the blkcipher_walk API. Both the generic implementation (crypto/salsa20_generic.c) and x86 implementation (arch/x86/crypto/salsa20_glue.c) of Salsa20 were vulnerable.

### POC

#### Reference
- https://usn.ubuntu.com/3620-1/

#### Github
No PoCs found on GitHub currently.