CVE-2016-6246

State: Published
Severity: Not scored
Published: Mar 7, 2017
Updated: Aug 6, 2024
Reserved: Jul 17, 2016

Description

OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows certain local users with kern.usermount privileges to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by mounting a tmpfs with a VNOVAL in the (1) username, (2) groupname, or (3) device name of the root node.

Scores

The record has no CVSS score.

Weaknesses

The record names no weakness.

Affected Products

Product	Versions
n/an/a	n/aAffected

References

http://www.openbsd.org/errata59.html
[oss-security] 20160714 Multiple Bugs in OpenBSD Kernelmailing-list
[oss-security] 20160717 ReL Multiple Bugs in OpenBSD Kernelmailing-list
http://www.openbsd.org/errata58.html
91805vdb-entry

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