CVE-2016-9083

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CVSS 3.1

7.8 high

EPSS

<1%p32

Published

Nov 28, 2016 (Nov 28, 2016)

Modified

Jun 17, 2026

Description

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."

Vendors: linux
Products: linux kernel
Weakness: CWE-119, CWE-190
Vector: CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

NVD CVE.org GitHub PoCs EPSS (0.4%)

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