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Medium · 6.2 CVE-2016-9039 EUVD-2016-9860GHSA-h4vg-vpxq-866j

An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Io…

Published Jan 31, 2017 · Updated Aug 6, 2024 · Assigned by talos

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.

Affected products

VendorProductAffectedFixed
Joyent SmartOS OS 20161110T013148Z —

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