CVE-2016-9040

MEDIUM

Joyent SmartOS - Denial of Service via Hyprlofs Ioctl HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES Command

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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.

References (1)

Core 1
Core References
Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory x_refsource_misc
https://www.talosintelligence.com/vulnerability_reports/TALOS-2016-0258

Scores

CVSS v3 5.5
EPSS 0.0047
EPSS Percentile 37.4%
Attack Vector LOCAL
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Details

CWE
CWE-400
Status published
Products (1)
joyent/smartos 20161110t013148z
Published Sep 07, 2018
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026