CVE-2016-8636
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Feb 22, 2017
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2016
Description
Integer overflow in the mem_check_range function in drivers/infiniband/sw/rxe/rxe_mr.c in the Linux kernel before 4.9.10 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption), obtain sensitive information from kernel memory, or possibly have unspecified other impact via a write or read request involving the "RDMA protocol over infiniband" (aka Soft RoCE) technology.
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- 96189vdb-entry
- [oss-security] 20170211 CVE publication request - CVE 2016-8636mailing-list
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.10
- https://eyalitkin.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/cve-publication-cve-2016-8636/
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421981
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66
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