CVE-2016-9685: Linux Kernel

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

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.

Affected products

• Linux Linux Kernel: up to and including 4.5.0

Published 2016-12-28. Last modified 2026-06-17.