CVE-1999-0446

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Local users can perform a denial of service in NetBSD 1.3.3 and earlier versions by creating an unusual symbolic link with the ln command, triggering a bug in VFS.

Local users can perform a denial of service in NetBSD 1.3.3 and earlier versions by creating an unusual symbolic link with the ln command, triggering a bug in VFS.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

NetBSD

First reported 25 years ago

1999-04-12 04:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-09 12:34:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.3.1

1.3.1

NetBSD 1.3.2

1.3.2

NetBSD 1.3.3

1.3.3

References

7051

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