CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6654

4.3 MEDIUM Published 2006-12-20 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-12-20
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.3 MEDIUM — AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Description

The sendmsg function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029, when run on a 64-bit architecture, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via an invalid msg_controllen parameter to the sendit function.

Affected configurations

• netbsd netbsd 2.0 • netbsd netbsd 2.1 • netbsd netbsd 3.0 • netbsd netbsd 3.0.1

References