CVE-2016-9039 — Uncontrolled Resource Consumption in Smartos
Severity
5.5MEDIUMNVD
CNA6.2
EPSS
0.1%
top 77.54%
CISA KEV
Not in KEV
Exploit
No known exploits
Affected products
Timeline
PublishedJan 31
Latest updateMay 13
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.
CVSS vector
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:HExploitability: 1.8 | Impact: 3.6