CVE-2016-8633 (GCVE-0-2016-8633)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-28 03:01 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:27
VLAI
Summary
drivers/firewire/net.c in the Linux kernel before 4.8.7, in certain unusual hardware configurations, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via crafted fragmented packets.
Severity
6.8 (Medium)
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CWE
  • n/a
Assigner
References
Date Public
2016-11-06 00:00
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