Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 1421981
CVE-2016-8636 kernel: Integer overflow in the RDMA over infiniband software implementation
Last modified: 2017-02-14 04:24:20 EST
An integer overflow vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel in the software implementation of the RDMA protocol over infiniband. References: http://seclists.org/oss-sec/2017/q1/404 https://eyalitkin.wordpress.com/2017/02/11/cve-publication-cve-2016-8636/ Upstream patch: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/647bf3d8a8e5777319da92af672289b2a6c4dc66
Statement: This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux as they did not include the software implementation of the RDMA protocol over infiniband.