CVE-2006-4435

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

OpenBSD 3.8, 3.9, and possibly earlier versions allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by allocating more semaphores than the default.

OpenBSD 3.8, 3.9, and possibly earlier versions allows context-dependent attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by allocating more semaphores than the default.

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

OpenBSD

First reported 18 years ago

2006-08-29 00:04:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-20 01:33:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD 3.8

3.8

OpenBSD 3.9

3.9

References

21642

Patch, Vendor Advisory

1016756

Patch

[3.9] 20060825 007: SECURITY FIX: August 25, 2006

[3.8] 20060825 012: SECURITY FIX: August 25, 2006

28195

19713

Patch

openbsd-semaphores-dos(28617)

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