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CVE-2016-9040

5.5 mediumEPSS 0.5%

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.

Severity

CVSS 3.1

5.5 medium
CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
EPSS
0.5% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days; higher than 40% of CVEs (scores of 2026-10-31)
CWE
CWE-400
Published
Modified
Record from
the NVD, synced

Affected

References

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