CVE-2016-8658

Name	CVE-2016-8658
Description	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.
Source	CVE (at NVD; CERT, LWN, oss-sec, fulldisc, bugtraq, EDB, Metasploit, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Gentoo, SUSE bugzilla/CVE, Mageia, GitHub advisories/code/issues, web search, more)

Vulnerable and fixed packages

The table below lists information on source packages.

Source Package	Release	Version	Status
linux (PTS)	buster	4.19.249-2	fixed
	buster (security)	4.19.282-1	fixed
	bullseye	5.10.178-3	fixed
	bullseye (security)	5.10.179-1	fixed
	bookworm, sid	6.1.27-1	fixed

The information below is based on the following data on fixed versions.

Package	Type	Release	Fixed Version
linux	source	wheezy	(not affected)
linux	source	jessie	3.16.39-1
linux	source	(unstable)	4.7.5-1

Notes

[wheezy] - linux <not-affected> (Vulnerable code introduced later in 3.7)
Fixed by: https://git.kernel.org/linus/ded89912156b1a47d940a0c954c43afbabd0c42c (v4.8-rc8)