CVE-2016-9083
- State
- Published
- Severity
- Not scored
- Published
- Nov 28, 2016
- Updated
- Aug 6, 2024
- Reserved
- Oct 27, 2016
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."
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Weaknesses
The record names no weakness.
Affected Products
| Product | Versions |
|---|---|
n/an/a |
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References
- [oss-security] 20161027 kernel: low-severity vfio driver integer overflowmailing-list
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/
- RHSA-2017:0387vendor-advisory
- 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
- RHSA-2017:0386vendor-advisory
- 93929vdb-entry
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