CVE-2016-9039

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.

SeverityMedium
CVSS6.2
Exploit probability—
ProductJoyent Smartos
PublishedJan 31, 2017
First seenJan 31, 2017

How to fix

Sources list no fixed version or patch link for this vulnerability.

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ProductAffected versionsFixed in
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