ghsa-76pq-5vq9-r25r
Vulnerability from github
Published
2022-05-14 03:55
Modified
2025-04-12 13:06
Severity ?
7.8 (High) - CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
Details

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.

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  "affected": [],
  "aliases": [
    "CVE-2016-9084"
  ],
  "database_specific": {
    "cwe_ids": [
      "CWE-190"
    ],
    "github_reviewed": false,
    "github_reviewed_at": null,
    "nvd_published_at": "2016-11-28T03:59:00Z",
    "severity": "HIGH"
  },
  "details": "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.",
  "id": "GHSA-76pq-5vq9-r25r",
  "modified": "2025-04-12T13:06:50Z",
  "published": "2022-05-14T03:55:20Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9084"
    },
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      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0386.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93930"
    }
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  "severity": [
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      "score": "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H",
      "type": "CVSS_V3"
    }
  ]
}


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