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CVE-2016-9084
high
Description
drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci_intrs.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 misuses the kzalloc function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (integer overflow) or have unspecified other impact by leveraging access to a vfio PCI device file.
References
https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/9373631/
https://github.com/torvalds/linux/commit/05692d7005a364add85c6e25a6c4447ce08f913a
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1389259
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/93930
http://www.openwall.com/lists/oss-security/2016/10/26/11
http://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2017-0387.html