CVE-2016-8658

Source
https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8658
Import Source
https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8658.json
JSON Data
https://api.test.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-8658
Downstream
Related
Published
2016-10-16T21:59:13.147Z
Modified
2026-03-12T22:13:01.232829Z
Severity
  • 6.1 (Medium) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H CVSS Calculator
Summary
[none]
Details

Stack-based buffer overflow in the brcmfcfg80211start_ap function in drivers/net/wireless/broadcom/brcm80211/brcmfmac/cfg80211.c in the Linux kernel before 4.7.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) or possibly have unspecified other impact via a long SSID Information Element in a command to a Netlink socket.

References

Affected packages

Git /

Affected ranges

Database specific

unresolved_ranges
[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "last_affected": "4.7.4"
            }
        ]
    }
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/osv-test-cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-8658.json"