PT-2006-7257 · Netbsd · Netbsd

Published 2006-12-20 · Updated 2008-09-05 · CVE-2006-6655

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

1.7

Low

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:S/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 local users to cause a denial of service, resulting in a kernel panic, by attempting to access a specific file on a procfs filesystem mounted with certain options. This is due to a NULL pointer dereference.

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-2006-6655

Affected Products

Netbsd

References · 3

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017293 · Vendor Advisory
• ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-026.txt.asc · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6655 · Security Note