CVEvulnerability
CVE-2016-8636
7.8 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2017-02-22
- Last modified
- 2026-06-17
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 3.1 ([email protected])
- 7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
- Weaknesses
- CWE-190
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.
Affected configurations
• linux linux kernel (>= 4.8 < 4.9.10)
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.10 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/11/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96189 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421981 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://eyalitkin.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/cve-publication-cve-2016-8636/ Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.10 Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/11/9 Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96189 Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421981 Issue Tracking, Patch
- https://eyalitkin.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/cve-publication-cve-2016-8636/ Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66 Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory