Vulnerability Details CVE-2016-9040
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.
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score
EPSS Score 0.002
EPSS Ranking 40.3%
CVSS Severity
CVSS v3 Score 6.2
CVSS v2 Score 4.9
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