PT-2006-7256 · Netbsd · Netbsd

Published 2006-12-20 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2006-6654

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.3

Medium

Base vector

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions NetBSD versions prior to 20061023 NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 versions prior to 20061024 NetBSD 2.x versions prior to 20061029

Description The issue allows attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a kernel panic, by providing an invalid msg controllen parameter to the sendit function when using the sendmsg function on a 64-bit architecture.

Recommendations For NetBSD versions prior to 20061023, update to a version after 20061023. For NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 versions prior to 20061024, update to a version after 20061024. For NetBSD 2.x versions prior to 20061029, update to a version after 20061029.

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-6654

Affected Products

Netbsd

References · 3

• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6654 · Security Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017293 · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-026.txt.asc · Vendor Advisory