CVE-2016-8650

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8650
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8650.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8650
Downstream
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Published
2016-11-28T03:59:09.843Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:12:56.836226Z
Severity
  • 5.5 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

The mpipowm 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 addkey system call for an RSA key with a zero exponent.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.8.11"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8650.json"