cve-2016-8636
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2017-02-22 16:00
Modified
2024-08-06 02:27
Severity ?
Summary
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.
References
secalert@redhat.comhttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.10Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/11/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96189Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
secalert@redhat.comhttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421981Issue Tracking, Patch
secalert@redhat.comhttps://eyalitkin.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/cve-publication-cve-2016-8636/Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
secalert@redhat.comhttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.10Release Notes, Vendor Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/11/9Mailing List, Patch, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96189Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421981Issue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://eyalitkin.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/cve-publication-cve-2016-8636/Patch, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66Issue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
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