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CVE-2018-1165

• Severity: high (CVSS 7.0 v3.1)
• 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: none known
• Published: 2018-02-21 · updated 2026-06-17
• Weakness: CWE-122

Description

This vulnerability allows local attackers to escalate privileges on vulnerable installations of Joyent SmartOS release-20170803-20170803T064301Z. An attacker must first obtain the ability to execute low-privileged code on the target system in order to exploit this vulnerability. The specific flaw exists within the SMB_IOC_SVCENUM IOCTL. The issue results from the lack of proper validation of the length of user-supplied data prior to copying it to a fixed-length, heap-based buffer. An attacker can leverage this vulnerability to execute code under the context of the host OS. Was ZDI-CAN-4983.

Affected products

• Joyent SmartOS: 20170803
• Oracle Corporation Solaris Operating System: 11
• Oracle Zfs Storage Appliance: 8.8

References

• https://help.joyent.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000124928
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-158
• https://help.joyent.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000124928
• https://www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.html
• https://zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-158

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