High severity7.0NVD Advisory· Published Feb 21, 2018· Updated Jun 17, 2026
CVE-2018-1165
CVE-2018-1165
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.
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Affected products
2- Joyent/Joyent SmartOSv5Range: release-20170803-20170803T064301Z
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References
3- help.joyent.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000124928nvdVendor Advisory
- www.oracle.com/security-alerts/cpuapr2020.htmlnvdThird Party Advisory
- zerodayinitiative.com/advisories/ZDI-18-158nvdThird Party AdvisoryVDB Entry
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