First published: Wed Dec 14 2016(Updated: )
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.
Credit: talos-cna@cisco.com
Affected Software | Affected Version | How to fix |
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Joyent SmartOS | =20161110t013148z |
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