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.
References (2)
Core 2
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry
x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95916
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry x_refsource_misc
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/
Scores
CVSS v3
6.2
EPSS
0.0052
EPSS Percentile
40.0%
Attack Vector
LOCAL
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
Details
CWE
CWE-400
Status
published
Products (2)
joyent/smartos
20161110t013148z
Joyent/SmartOS
OS 20161110T013148Z
Published
Jan 31, 2017
Tracked Since
Feb 18, 2026