CVE-2005-4783

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

kernfs_xread in kernfs_vnops.c in NetBSD before 20050831 does not check for a negative offset when reading the message buffer, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory.

kernfs_xread in kernfs_vnops.c in NetBSD before 20050831 does not check for a negative offset when reading the message buffer, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory.

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

Overview

Type

NetBSD

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 1.6

1.6

NetBSD 2.0

2.0

NetBSD 2.0.3

2.0.3

NetBSD 2.1

2.1

References

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/miscfs/kernfs/kernfs_vnops.c

Patch

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/miscfs/kernfs/kernfs_vnops.c.diff?r1=1.110&r2=1.111&f=h

Patch

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

http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-3.cgi?show=727

Patch

1015132

Patch

20729

Patch

NetBSD-SA2006-001

Patch

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