CVE-2016-9039

CVSS V2 Medium 4.9 CVSS V3 Medium 5.5
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.
Overview
  • CVE ID
  • CVE-2016-9039
  • Assigner
  • talos-cna@cisco.com
  • Vulnerability Status
  • Modified
  • Published Version
  • 2017-01-31T21:59:00
  • Last Modified Date
  • 2022-04-19T20:15:12
Weakness Enumerations
CWE URL
CWE-400 http://cwe.mitre.org/data/definitions/400.html
CPE Configuration (Product)
CPE Vulnerable Operator Version Start Version End
cpe:2.3:o:joyent:smartos:20161110t013148z:*:*:*:*:*:*:* 1 OR
CVSS Version 2
  • Version
  • 2.0
  • Vector String
  • AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
  • Access Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Access Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Authentication
  • NONE
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Integrity Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • COMPLETE
  • Base Score
  • 4.9
  • Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 3.9
  • Impact Score
  • 6.9
CVSS Version 3
  • Version
  • 3.0
  • Vector String
  • CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
  • Attack Vector
  • LOCAL
  • Attack Compatibility
  • LOW
  • Privileges Required
  • LOW
  • User Interaction
  • NONE
  • Scope
  • UNCHANGED
  • Confidentiality Impact
  • NONE
  • Availability Impact
  • HIGH
  • Base Score
  • 5.5
  • Base Severity
  • MEDIUM
  • Exploitability Score
  • 1.8
  • Impact Score
  • 3.6
References
Reference URL Reference Tags
http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/ Exploit Technical Description Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95916 Third Party Advisory VDB Entry
Sources
Source Name Source URL
NIST https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9039
MITRE https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9039
History
Created Old Value New Value Data Type Notes
2022-04-20 17:00:24 Added to TrackCVE
2022-12-02 13:27:30 2017-01-31T21:59Z 2017-01-31T21:59:00 CVE Published Date updated
2022-12-02 13:27:30 2022-04-19T20:15:12 CVE Modified Date updated
2022-12-02 13:27:30 Modified Vulnerability Status updated