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CVE-2016-9084

Public on 2016-11-28
Modified on 2016-12-07
Description

The use of a kzalloc with an integer multiplication allowed an integer overflow condition to be reached in vfio_pci_intrs.c. This combined with CVE-2016-9083 may allow an attacker to craft an attack and use unallocated memory, potentially crashing the machine.

Severity
Medium
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CVSS v3 Base Score
5.3
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Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory
Amazon Linux 1 kernel 2016-12-06 23:44 ALAS-2016-772

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 3.3 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:P/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 5.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:H/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:L/A:H
NVD CVSSv2 4.6 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 7.8 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H