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CVE-2016-9083

drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.c in the Linux kernel through 4.8.11 allows local users to bypass integer overflow checks, and cause a denial of s

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Summary

drivers/vfio/pci/vfio_pci.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 VFIO_DEVICE_SET_IRQS ioctl call, aka a "state machine confusion bug."

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References 8

openwall.com

patchwork.kernel.org

rhn.redhat.com

bugzilla.redhat.com

git.kernel.org

GitHub · torvalds/linux

securityfocus.com