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Bug 1421981 - (CVE-2016-8636) CVE-2016-8636 kernel: Integer overflow in the RDMA over infiniband software implementation
CVE-2016-8636 kernel: Integer overflow in the RDMA over infiniband software i...
Status: CLOSED NOTABUG
Product: Security Response
Classification: Other
Component: vulnerability (Show other bugs)
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All Linux
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Assigned To: Red Hat Product Security
impact=moderate,public=20170207,repor...
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Reported: 2017-02-14 04:22 EST by Andrej Nemec
Modified: 2017-02-14 04:24 EST (History)
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Description Andrej Nemec 2017-02-14 04:22:35 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
Comment 1 Andrej Nemec 2017-02-14 04:24:20 EST
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.

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