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CVE-2016-9083

Published: Nov 28, 2016

Modified: Aug 6, 2024

PUBLISHED

Description

drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 allows local users to bypass integer overflow checks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact, by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file for a VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctl call, aka a "state machine confusion bug."

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	affected `n/a`

References

[oss-security] 20161027 kernel: low-severity vfio driver integer overflow

mailing-list

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https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/

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vendor-advisory

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https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389258

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http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a

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https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a

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vendor-advisory

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vdb-entry

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