CVE-2016-6247 Denial of service in n/a
Local users can cause a kernel panic and denial of service by unmounting a filesystem with an open vnode.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Any signed-in user
- Attackable
- Local or same network only
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2016-6247?
CVE-2016-6247 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Openbsd Openbsd, published on 7 Mar 2017. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Official description
OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows certain local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by unmounting a filesystem with an open vnode on the mnt_vnodelist.
Weakness: CWE-20
Which versions are affected by CVE-2016-6247?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Openbsd Openbsd.
How do I fix CVE-2016-6247?
No fix has been published for CVE-2016-6247 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2016-6247 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2016-6247 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Openbsd Openbsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-qfm6-g572-f3gw.