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An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system

Published Jan 31, 2017

Description

An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFS_ADD_ENTRIES. An attacker can cause a buffer to be allocated and never freed. When repeatedly exploited this will result in memory exhaustion, resulting in a full system denial of service.

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CVE.org / MITRE
Status PUBLISHED
Assigner talos
Published Jan 31, 2017
Updated Aug 6, 2024
Reserved Oct 26, 2016
NVD
Status Modified
Modified Jun 17, 2026
Red Hat
Severity n/a
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