Security Advisory

CVE-2016-9032

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2016-12-14 17:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-06 02:42:09
Assigner talos
State PUBLISHED

Description

An exploitable buffer overflow exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFS_ADD_ENTRIES when dealing with native file systems. An attacker can craft an input that can cause a buffer overflow in the nm variable leading to an out of bounds memory access and could result in potential privilege escalation. This vulnerability is distinct from CVE-2016-9034.