CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-1589

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-04-03 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-04-03
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

The elf_load_file function in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an ELF interpreter that does not have a PT_LOAD section in its header, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected configurations

• netbsd netbsd 2.0 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.1 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.2 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.3 • netbsd netbsd 2.1 • netbsd netbsd 3.0

References