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CVE-2016-8636
high
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.
References
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66
https://eyalitkin.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/cve-publication-cve-2016-8636/
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1421981
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/96189
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2017/02/11/9
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.9.10