CVE-2016-9083 | BDVDB-2026-79442 Detail
Description#
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 allows local users to bypass integer overflow checks, and cause a denial of service (memory corruption) or have unspecified other impact, by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file for a VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctl call, aka a "state machine confusion bug."
Impact#
No impact statement in the source data.
Weaknesses#
No weakness recorded in the source data.
References#
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389258
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0386.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93929
Exploit#
No public exploit known
History#
- Version 1Record published in the CVE List.
- Version 2Most recent update recorded in the CVE List.