Denial of Service Vulnerability in Joyent SmartOS Hyprlofs File System

CVE-2016-9039 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

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.

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