CVE-2016-9039

An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system

Medium · published January 31, 2017

CVSS v3.0
6.2
EPSS
1%
Percentile
42.8
In the wild
Unconfirmed
What it is

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.

The record
Technical detail
CVSS v3.0
6.2 · MEDIUM
Vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS v4.0
Not supplied
EPSS
0.00516 · 42.8th percentile
Published
2017-01-31T21:00Z
EPSS history
Timeline
  • 31 JAN 21:00Z
    An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system
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