CVE-2016-9083 (GCVE-0-2016-9083)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2016-11-28 03:01 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:42
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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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