CVE-2016-9084

HighCVSS 7.8/10Last modified Jun 17, 2026

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.0 7.8/10CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Weakness enumeration

CWE-190

Affected software

Vendor	Product	Versions
n/a	n/a	n/a

References

http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913aIssue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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/2016/10/26/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93930
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259Issue Tracking
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913aIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/Patch
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913aIssue Tracking, Patch, Vendor Advisory
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/2016/10/26/11Mailing List, Third Party Advisory
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93930
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259Issue Tracking
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913aIssue Tracking, Patch, Third Party Advisory
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/Patch

Timeline

Published: Nov 28, 2016
Last modified: Jun 17, 2026
NVD status: Modified

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