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CVE-2016-9039

• Severity: medium (CVSS 5.5 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2017-01-31 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-400

Description

An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFS_ADD_ENTRIES. An attacker can cause a buffer to be allocated and never freed. When repeatedly exploited this will result in memory exhaustion, resulting in a full system denial of service.

Affected products

• Joyent SmartOS: 20161110t013148z

References

• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95916
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95916
• http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/

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