Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9

CVE-2016-6246 · MEDIUM Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows certain local users with kern.usermount privileges to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by mounting a tmpfs with a VNOVAL in the (1) username, (2) groupname, or (3) device name of the root node.

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