CVE-2016-9039 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2017-01-31

Score: 6.2 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

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Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

Joyent

SmartOS

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`OS 20161110T013148Z`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

cpe:2.3:o:joyent:smartos:20161110t013148z:*:*:*:*:*:*:*

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Remediation

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2016-9860	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

Attack Vector Local

Attack Complexity Low

Privileges Required None

Scope Unchanged

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact High

User Interaction None

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Complete

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00074.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95916
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/

History

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Joyent Smartos

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: talos

Published: 2017-01-31T21:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-08-06T02:42:09.806Z

Reserved: 2016-10-26T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2016-9039

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2017-01-31T21:59:00.157

Modified: 2025-04-20T01:37:25.860

Link: CVE-2016-9039

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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Weaknesses

CWE-400

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