CVE-2005-4779

Severity

36%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

81%

verifiedexecioctl in verified_exec.c in NetBSD 2.0.2 calls NDINIT with UIO_USERSPACE rather than UID_SYSSPACE, which removes the functionality of the verified exec kernel subsystem and might allow local users to execute Trojan horse programs.

verifiedexecioctl in verified_exec.c in NetBSD 2.0.2 calls NDINIT with UIO_USERSPACE rather than UID_SYSSPACE, which removes the functionality of the verified exec kernel subsystem and might allow local users to execute Trojan horse programs.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 3.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N).

Overview

First reported 19 years ago

2005-12-31 05:00:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 20:57:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 2.0

2.0

NetBSD 2.0.1

2.0.1

NetBSD 2.0.2

2.0.2

References

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/verified_exec.c.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.4.2.1&f=h

[netbsd-announce] 20051031 Announcing update 2.0.3 - source only

Patch

http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-2-0.cgi?show=1988

20725

Patch

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