CVEs-PoC/2016/CVE-2016-9039.md

### [CVE-2016-9039](https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2016-9039)
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### Description

An exploitable denial of service exists in the Joyent SmartOS 20161110T013148Z Hyprlofs file system. The vulnerability is present in the Ioctl system call with the command HYPRLOFS_ADD_ENTRIES. An attacker can cause a buffer to be allocated and never freed. When repeatedly exploited this will result in memory exhaustion, resulting in a full system denial of service.

### POC

#### Reference
- http://www.talosintelligence.com/reports/TALOS-2016-0257/

#### Github
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