CVEvulnerability

CVE-2016-9685

5.5 MEDIUM Published 2016-12-28 Modified 2026-06-17 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2016-12-28
Last modified
2026-06-17
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 3.0 ([email protected])
5.5 MEDIUM — CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
CWE-400

Description

Multiple memory leaks in error paths in fs/xfs/xfs_attr_list.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XFS filesystem operations.

Affected configurations

• linux linux kernel (<= 4.5.0)

Related

Weakness · CWE (1)

  • CWE-400 Uncontrolled Resource Consumption weakness

References