{
  "threat_severity" : "Low",
  "public_date" : "2016-12-01T00:00:00Z",
  "bugzilla" : {
    "description" : "kernel: Memory leaks in xfs_attr_list.c error paths",
    "id" : "1396941",
    "url" : "https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1396941"
  },
  "cvss" : {
    "cvss_base_score" : "2.1",
    "cvss_scoring_vector" : "AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cvss3" : {
    "cvss3_base_score" : "3.8",
    "cvss3_scoring_vector" : "CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:C/C:L/I:N/A:N",
    "status" : "verified"
  },
  "cwe" : "CWE-772",
  "details" : [ "Multiple memory leaks in error paths in fs/xfs/xfs_attr_list.c in the Linux kernel before 4.5.1 allow local users to cause a denial of service (memory consumption) via crafted XFS filesystem operations.", "A flaw was found in the Linux kernel's implementation of XFS file attributes. Two memory leaks were detected in xfs_attr_shortform_list and xfs_attr3_leaf_list_int when running a docker container backed by xfs/overlay2.  A dedicated attacker could possible exhaust all memory and create a denial of service situation." ],
  "statement" : "This issue affects the Linux kernel packages as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and 6 and 7. This has been rated as having Low security impact and is not currently planned to be addressed in future updates. For additional information, refer to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux Life Cycle: https://access.redhat.com/support/policy/updates/errata/.",
  "acknowledgement" : "This issue was discovered by Qian Cai (Red Hat).",
  "affected_release" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-08-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:2077",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:rhel_extras_rt:7",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-0:3.10.0-693.rt56.617.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7",
    "release_date" : "2017-08-01T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:1842",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:7",
    "package" : "kernel-0:3.10.0-693.el7"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "release_date" : "2017-09-06T00:00:00Z",
    "advisory" : "RHSA-2017:2669",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2:server:el6",
    "package" : "kernel-rt-1:3.10.0-693.2.1.rt56.585.el6rt"
  } ],
  "package_state" : [ {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:5"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/o:redhat:enterprise_linux:6"
  }, {
    "product_name" : "Red Hat Enterprise MRG 2",
    "fix_state" : "Will not fix",
    "package_name" : "realtime-kernel",
    "cpe" : "cpe:/a:redhat:enterprise_mrg:2"
  } ],
  "references" : [ "https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2016-9685\nhttps://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2016-9685" ],
  "name" : "CVE-2016-9685",
  "csaw" : false
}