CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6397

4.4 MEDIUM Published 2006-12-08 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-08
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.4 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Description

Integer overflow in banner/banner.c in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD might allow local users to modify memory via a long banner. NOTE: CVE and multiple third parties dispute this issue. Since banner is not setuid, an exploit would not cross privilege boundaries in normal operations. This issue is not a vulnerability

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd 6.2 • netbsd netbsd 2.0.4 • openbsd openbsd

References