CVE-2016-9083
- Source
- https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9083
- Import Source
- https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9083.json
- JSON Data
- https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2016-9083
- Downstream
- Related
- Published
- 2016-11-28T03:59:11.033Z
- Modified
- 2026-03-15T22:11:53.426987Z
- Severity
-
- 7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator
- Summary
- [none]
- Details
-
drivers/vfio/pci/vfiopci.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 VFIODEVICESETIRQS ioctl call, aka a "state machine confusion bug."
- References
-
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html
- http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93929
- http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0386.html
- https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389258
- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
- https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/
- http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
Affected packages
Git /
Database specific
unresolved_ranges
[
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "3.6"
},
{
"fixed": "3.10.107"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "3.11"
},
{
"fixed": "3.12.70"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "3.13"
},
{
"fixed": "3.16.39"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "3.17"
},
{
"fixed": "3.18.51"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "3.19"
},
{
"fixed": "4.1.41"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "4.2"
},
{
"fixed": "4.4.65"
}
]
},
{
"events": [
{
"introduced": "4.5"
},
{
"fixed": "4.9"
}
]
}
]
source
"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2016-9083.json"