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CVE-2016-9084

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v3.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2016-11-28 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-190

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.

Affected products

• Linux kernel: through 4.8.11

References

• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0386.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93930
• https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259
• https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
• https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/
• http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0386.html
• http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html
• http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11

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