CVE-2006-1797

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

The kernel in NetBSD-current before September 28, 2005 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to gather information on a non-existent alias of a network interface, which causes a NULL pointer dereference.

The kernel in NetBSD-current before September 28, 2005 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to gather information on a non-existent alias of a network interface, which causes a NULL pointer dereference.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C).

Overview

Type

NetBSD

First reported 18 years ago

2006-04-18 10:02:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:30:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.6

1.6

NetBSD 1.6 Beta

1.6

NetBSD 1.6.1

1.6.1

NetBSD 1.6.2

1.6.2

NetBSD 2.0

2.0

NetBSD 2.0.1

2.0.1

NetBSD 2.0.2

2.0.2

NetBSD 2.0.3

2.0.3

NetBSD 2.1

2.1

NetBSD 3.0

3.0

References

NetBSD-SA2006-012

19615

Vendor Advisory

1015908

24578

17497

bsd-siocgifalias-ioctl-dos(25766)

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