CVEvulnerability

CVE-2005-4779

3.6 LOW Published 2005-12-31 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2005-12-31
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 3.6 LOW — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:N

Description

verifiedexecioctl in verified_exec.c in NetBSD 2.0.2 calls NDINIT with UIO_USERSPACE rather than UID_SYSSPACE, which removes the functionality of the verified exec kernel subsystem and might allow local users to execute Trojan horse programs.

Affected configurations

• netbsd netbsd 2.0 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.1 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.2

References

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/verified_exec.c.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.4.2.1&f=h cvsweb.netbsd.org
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html Patch
http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-2-0.cgi?show=1988 releng.netbsd.org
http://www.osvdb.org/20725 Patch
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/verified_exec.c.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.4.2.1&f=h cvsweb.netbsd.org
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html Patch
http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-2-0.cgi?show=1988 releng.netbsd.org
http://www.osvdb.org/20725 Patch