{
  "threat_severity" : "Moderate",
  "public_date" : "2016-11-15T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: Oops in shash_async_export()",
    "id" : "1388821",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1388821"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "4.7",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "5.5",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-476",
  "details" : [ "The hash_accept function in crypto/algif_hash.c in the Linux kernel before 4.3.6 allows local users to cause a denial of service (OOPS) by attempting to trigger use of in-kernel hash algorithms for a socket that has received zero bytes of data.", "A vulnerability was found in the Linux kernel. An unprivileged local user could trigger oops in shash_async_export() by attempting to force the in-kernel hashing algorithms into decrypting an empty data set." ],
  "statement" : "This issue does not affect the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5, 6 as the code creating this issue is not present in the products listed.\nThis issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7 and Red Hat Enterprise MRG-2. Future Linux kernel updates for the respective releases might address this issue.",
  "acknowledgement" : "Red Hat would like to thank Igor Redko (Virtuozzo kernel team) for reporting this issue.",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-05-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:1298",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-514.21.1.rt56.438.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-05-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:1308",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-514.21.1.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2017-05-25T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:1297",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-1:3.10.0-514.rt56.221.el6rt"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Not affected",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-8646\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-8646" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-8646",
  "csaw" : false
}