Security Advisory

CVE-2016-6522

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2017-03-07 16:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 01:29:20
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

Description

Integer overflow in the uvm_map_isavail function in uvm/uvm_map.c in OpenBSD 5.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a crafted mmap call, which triggers the new mapping to overlap with an existing mapping.