CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-0145
4.6 MEDIUM
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-01-09
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 4.6 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
The kernfs_xread function in kernfs in NetBSD 1.6 through 2.1, and OpenBSD 3.8, does not properly validate file offsets against negative 32-bit values that occur as a result of truncation, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via the lseek system call.
Affected configurations
• netbsd netbsd 1.6
• netbsd netbsd 1.6.1
• netbsd netbsd 1.6.2
• netbsd netbsd 2.0
• netbsd netbsd 2.0.1
• netbsd netbsd 2.0.2
• netbsd netbsd 2.0.3
• netbsd netbsd 2.1
References
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-001.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18388 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18712 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/405 securityreason.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/22293 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423827/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16173 Patch
- http://www.securitylab.net/research/2006/02/advisory_netbsd_openbsd_kernfs.html Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24035 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-001.txt.asc ftp.netbsd.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18388 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/18712 Vendor Advisory
- http://securityreason.com/securityalert/405 securityreason.com
- http://www.osvdb.org/22293 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423827/100/0/threaded www.securityfocus.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/16173 Patch
- http://www.securitylab.net/research/2006/02/advisory_netbsd_openbsd_kernfs.html Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24035 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com