CVE-2016-9401

Public on 2017-01-23
Modified on 2017-08-31
Description
A denial of service flaw was found in the way bash handled popd commands. A poorly written shell script could cause bash to crash resulting in a local denial of service limited to a specific bash session.
Severity
Low severity
Low
CVSS v3 Base Score
3.3
See breakdown

Affected Packages

Platform Package Release Date Advisory Status
Amazon Linux 1 bash 2017-08-31 ALAS-2017-878 Fixed

CVSS Scores

Score Type Score Vector
Amazon Linux CVSSv2 1.9 AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
Amazon Linux CVSSv3 3.3 CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:L
NVD CVSSv2 2.1 AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
NVD CVSSv3 5.5 CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H