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CVE-2016-6561
illumos smbsrv NULL pointer dereference allows system crash.
High7.5EPSS 2.5%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- certcc
Description
illumos smbsrv NULL pointer dereference allows system crash.
Timeline
ID reserved
By certcc
- 8 months later
· 8 months later
Published
- 7 years later
· 7 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 3.0 | High7.5 | CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:N/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 2.5% · top 15% of all CVEs (8 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
Affected products
- affected proir to [email protected],5.11-2016.0.1.15933
References (4)
- https://www.illumos.org/issues/7483 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://www.openindiana.org/2016/11/01/cve-2016-6560-cve-2016-6561-security-issues-in-illumos/ (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- https://github.com/illumos/illumos-gate/commit/6d1c73b5858fefc6161c7d686345f0dc887ea799 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 98079 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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