Medium severity · published Sep 7, 2018
CVE-2016-9040
An exploitable denial of service exists in the the Joyent SmartOS OS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system
5.5
CVSS
0.5%
EPSS
No
On KEV
Description
An exploitable denial of service exists in the the Joyent SmartOS OS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES when used with a 32 bit model. An attacker can cause a buffer to be allocated and never freed. When repeatedly exploit this will result in memory exhaustion, resulting in a full system denial of service.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Attack vector
Local
Complexity
Low
Privileges
Low
User interaction
None
Confidentiality
None
Integrity
None
Availability
High
Scope
Unchanged
Exploitation
Is it being used?
Exploit prediction (EPSS)0.5% · higher than 41% of CVEs
Exploited in the wildNo evidence yet
CISA KEVNot listed
Ransomware campaign useNot known
Affected products
Which versions
SM
Smartos · Joyent
20161110t013148z · source: NVD
References
NVD
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9040
CVE.org
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9040
Exploit
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0258
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