CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9084

7.8 HIGH Published 2016-11-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-11-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Weaknesses
CWE-190

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.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.8.11)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-190 Integer Overflow or Wraparound weakness

References