CVE-2016-8633

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Published 2016-11-28 · Modified 2026-05-06
CVSS v3
6.8
CVSS:3.0/AV:P/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS v2
6.2
VIR risk
6.8

Description

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.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
67%
Patch ETA

Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: debian — https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2016-8633

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: suse — https://www.suse.com/security/cve/CVE-2016-8633.html

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/667121ace9dbafb368618dbabcf07901c962ddac

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v4.x/ChangeLog-4.8.7

vendor Authored 2026-05-27

Vendor advisory: secalert@redhat.com — http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=667121ace9dbafb368618dbabcf07901c962ddac

OS impact

OSVersionStatusFixed in
suse slesaffected
debian debianbookwormfixed4.8.7-1
debian debianbullseyefixed4.8.7-1
debian debianforkyfixed4.8.7-1
debian debiansidfixed4.8.7-1
debian debiantrixiefixed4.8.7-1
linux linux-kernelaffected

References

CWEs

CWE-119 CWE-284

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.