CVE-2016-8650
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 12, 2016
Description
The mpi_powm function in lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 does not ensure that memory is allocated for limb data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption and panic) via an add_key system call for an RSA key with a zero exponent.
Scores
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
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References
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/f5527fffff3f002b0a6b376163613b82f69de073
- 1037968vdb-entry
- 20161115 OS-S 2016-21 - Local DoS: Linux Kernel Nullpointer Dereference via keyctlmailing-list
- [oss-security] 20161125 Linux kernel: CVE-2016-8650 : Local denial of service with in key subsystemmailing-list
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1395187
- RHSA-2018:1854vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0932vendor-advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=f5527fffff3f002b0a6b376163613b82f69de073
- RHSA-2017:0933vendor-advisory
- RHSA-2017:0931vendor-advisory
- 94532vdb-entry
- https://source.android.com/security/bulletin/2017-03-01.html
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