CVE-2016-8632

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Nov 28, 2016
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Oct 12, 2016

Description

The tipc_msg_build function in net/tipc/msg.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 does not validate the relationship between the minimum fragment length and the maximum packet size, which allows local users to gain privileges or cause a denial of service (heap-based buffer overflow) by leveraging the CAP_NET_ADMIN capability.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

[oss-security] 20161108 CVE-2016-8632 -- Linux kernel: tipc_msg_build() doesn't validate MTU that can trigger heap overflowmailing-list
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1390832
94211vdb-entry
[netdev] 20161018 [PATCH net] tipc: Guard against tiny MTU in tipc_msg_build()mailing-list

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