6.2med
CVE-2016-9039
An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system.
Published 9 y ago · modified 4 mo ago · JSON
CVSS
6.2
v3.0 · CNA
CISA KEV
No
not known exploited
EPSS
0.5%
percentile 44%
Public exploits
0
none known
Summary
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.
Exploit prediction (EPSS)
0.52% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 44% of all scored CVEs.
CVSS scores
| Assigned by | Version | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNA | 3.0 | 6.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| CNA | 3.0 | 6.2 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 3.0 | 5.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
| NVD | 2.0 | 4.9 | AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C |
Affected products
- Joyent SmartOS
Classification
- Weakness
- CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption
References
- securityfocus.com /bid/95916 · vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID, x_transferred
- talosintelligence.com /reports/TALOS-2016-0257/ · x_refsource_MISC, x_transferred
Sources
- CVE List: CVE-2016-9039
- NVD: CVE-2016-9039
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