CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-1797

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-04-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-04-18
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 kernel in NetBSD-current before September 28, 2005 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to gather information on a non-existent alias of a network interface, which causes a NULL pointer dereference.

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 • netbsd netbsd 3.0

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