CVSS 3.0
6.1 mediumCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:HCVE-2016-8658
Medium (6.1) in linux linux kernel. EPSS 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.
Stack-based buffer overflow in the brcmf_cfg80211_start_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.
Severity
- EPSS
- 0.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 52% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
- CWE
- CWE-119
- Published
- Modified
- Record from
- the NVD, synced
Affected
- linux:linux_kernel
References
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42c
- http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.7.5
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/13/1
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93541
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/USN-3145-1