CVE-2016-9039
An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system.
Does this matter?
Lower severity and a low EPSS score (0.52%). Track it; it rarely justifies an emergency change on its own.
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.
- CVSS 3.0
- 5.5 MEDIUMCVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
- EPSS
- 0.52% probability · 44th percentile
- Public exploits
- None in Exploit-DB
- CISA KEV
- Not listed
- Weakness
- CWE-400
- Affected
- joyent/smartos
- Source
- talos-cna@cisco.com
EPSS 0.5% since 27 October 2026; no change recorded yet. Points are recorded when the score first appears and whenever it moves by a percentage point or more.
References
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95916Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/95916Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/Exploit, Technical Description, Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry
Source: NVD record, EPSS from FIRST.org, KEV from CISA, exploits from Exploit-DB. Refreshed daily. Download this record as JSON.