CVE-2001-0993

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

sendmsg function in NetBSD 1.3 through 1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel trap or panic) via a msghdr structure with a large msg_controllen length.

sendmsg function in NetBSD 1.3 through 1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel trap or panic) via a msghdr structure with a large msg_controllen length.

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 23 years ago

2001-07-24 04:00:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-10-10 01:29:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.3

1.3

NetBSD 1.3.1

1.3.1

NetBSD 1.3.2

1.3.2

NetBSD 1.3.3

1.3.3

NetBSD 1.4

1.4

NetBSD 1.4.1

1.4.1

NetBSD 1.4.2

1.4.2

NetBSD 1.4.3

1.4.3

NetBSD 1.5

1.5

References

NetBSD-SA2001-011

Patch, Vendor Advisory

1910

3088

Patch, Vendor Advisory

bsd-kernel-sendmsg-dos(6908)

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