CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6240

Published: Mar 07, 2017 | Modified: Sep 01, 2017
CVSS 3.x
7.8
HIGH
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

Integer truncation error in the amap_alloc function in OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows local users to execute arbitrary code with kernel privileges via a large size value.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 5.8 (including) 5.8 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 5.9 (including) 5.9 (including)

References