Security Advisory
CVE-2016-9084
7.8
HIGH
Vulnerability 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.
Published Date
November 28, 2016
Official Source
NIST NVD Advisory