VYPR
Medium severity5.5NVD Advisory· Published Sep 7, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026

CVE-2016-9040

CVE-2016-9040

Description

An exploitable denial of service exists in the the Joyent SmartOS OS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFSADDENTRIES when used with a 32 bit model. An attacker can cause a buffer to be allocated and never freed. When repeatedly exploit this will result in memory exhaustion, resulting in a full system denial of service.

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Affected products

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  • Joyent/Smartosllm-fuzzy2 versions
    20161110T013148Z+ 1 more
    • (no CPE)range: 20161110T013148Z
    • (no CPE)range: 20161110T013148Z

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