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CVE-2016-9039

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CVE-2016-9039

Published: Jan 31, 2017

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

CVSS v3.0

6.2

MEDIUM

Description

An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFS_ADD_ENTRIES. An attacker can cause a buffer to be allocated and never freed. When repeatedly exploited this will result in memory exhaustion, resulting in a full system denial of service.

VendorProductVersions

Joyent

SmartOS

affected
OS 20161110T013148Z

CVSS v3.0 Details

CVSS v3.0 Vector

CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Attack Vector

Local

Attack Complexity

Low

Privileges Required

None

User Interaction

None

Scope

Unchanged

Confidentiality

None

Integrity

None

Availability

High

References

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