CVE-2006-5550

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

The kernel in FreeBSD 6.1 and OpenBSD 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving certain ioctl requests to /dev/crypto.

The kernel in FreeBSD 6.1 and OpenBSD 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving certain ioctl requests to /dev/crypto.

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

First reported 18 years ago

2006-10-26 17:07:00

Last updated 16 years ago

2008-09-05 21:12:00

Affected Software

OpenBSD 4.0

4.0

References

http://elegerov.blogspot.com/2006/10/here-is-lame-proof-of-concept-code-for.html

Exploit

22543

Vendor Advisory

20713

Exploit

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