CVE - CVE-2016-9084

CVE-ID
CVE-2016-9084	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
Description
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 misuses the kzalloc function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or have unspecified other impact by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file.
References
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BID:93930 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93930 CONFIRM:http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a CONFIRM:https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259 CONFIRM:https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a CONFIRM:https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/ MLIST:[oss-security] 20161027 kernel: low-severity vfio driver integer overflow URL:http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11 REDHAT:RHSA-2017:0386 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0386.html REDHAT:RHSA-2017:0387 URL:http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20161027	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20161027)
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Proposed (Legacy)
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