CVE-2009-2793

Severity

46%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

106%

The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to a tempEIP pseudocode variable that is outside of the code-segment limits.

The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to a tempEIP pseudocode variable that is outside of the code-segment limits.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.6. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P).

Overview

First reported 15 years ago

2009-09-18 22:30:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-10 19:42:00

Affected Software

NetBSD 1.0

1.0

NetBSD 1.1

1.1

NetBSD 1.2

1.2

NetBSD 1.2.1

1.2.1

NetBSD 1.3

1.3

NetBSD 1.3.1

1.3.1

NetBSD 1.3.2

1.3.2

NetBSD 1.3.3

1.3.3

NetBSD 1.5

1.5

NetBSD 1.5.1

1.5.1

NetBSD 1.5.2

1.5.2

NetBSD 1.5.3

1.5.3

NetBSD 1.6

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

NetBSD 3.0.1

3.0.1

NetBSD 3.0.2

3.0.2

NetBSD 3.1

3.1

NetBSD 4.0

4.0

NetBSD

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