CVE-2016-8650 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2016-8650?

CVE-2016-8650 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Linux kernel, published on 28 Nov 2016. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

The mpi_powm function in lib/mpi/mpi-pow.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 does not ensure that memory is allocated for limb data, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (stack memory corruption and panic) via an add_key system call for an RSA key with a zero exponent.

Weakness: CWE-399, CWE-20

Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-8650?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Linux kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2016-8650?

Apply the vendor's patch.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2016-8650 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-8650 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as DEBIAN-CVE-2016-8650, GHSA-pjpg-8qgr-gpc5, UBUNTU-CVE-2016-8650.