CVE-2016-5828 Denial of service in n/a

What is CVE-2016-5828?

CVE-2016-5828 is a high-severity denial of service vulnerability in Canonical Ubuntu Linux, published on 27 Jun 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The start_thread function in arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c in the Linux kernel through 4.6.3 on powerpc platforms mishandles transactional state, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (invalid process state or TM Bad Thing exception, and system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact by starting and suspending a transaction before an exec system call.

Weakness: CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-5828?

It affects 4 products.

Products include Canonical Ubuntu Linux, Debian Debian Linux, Linux kernel, Novell Suse Linux Enterprise Real Time Extension.

How do I fix CVE-2016-5828?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.

Is CVE-2016-5828 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-5828 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Other vulnerabilities in Canonical Ubuntu Linux

• CVE-2020-11651 SaltStack Salt Authentication Bypass Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2020-7247 OpenSMTPD Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2019-16928 Exim Out-of-bounds Write Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2018-6789 Exim Buffer Overflow Exploited Critical 9.8
• CVE-2015-2590 Oracle Java SE and Java SE Embedded Remote Code Execution Exploited Critical 9.8

All Canonical Ubuntu Linux vulnerabilities

Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-5828, GHSA-64c3-3r62-5c6c, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-5828.