FKIE_CVE-2016-8658

Vulnerability from fkie_nvd - Published: 2016-10-16 21:59 - Updated: 2026-06-17 00:54
Severity
6.1 (Medium) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
Summary
Stack-based buffer overflow in the brcmf_cfg80211_start_ap function in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long SSID Information Element in a command to a Netlink socket.
References
cve@mitre.orghttp://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42cIssue Tracking, Patch
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.5Release Notes
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/1Mailing List
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93541
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3145-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3145-2
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3146-1
cve@mitre.orghttp://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3146-2
cve@mitre.orghttps://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384403Issue Tracking
cve@mitre.orghttps://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42cIssue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42cIssue Tracking, Patch
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.5Release Notes
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/1Mailing List
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93541
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3145-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3145-2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3146-1
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3146-2
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1384403Issue Tracking
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42cIssue Tracking, Patch
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
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