CVEvulnerability

CVE-2009-2793

4.6 MEDIUM Published 2009-09-18 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2009-09-18
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
Weaknesses
CWE-264

Description

The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to a tempEIP pseudocode variable that is outside of the code-segment limits.

Affected configurations

• netbsd netbsd (<= 5.0.1) • netbsd netbsd 0.8 • netbsd netbsd 0.9 • netbsd netbsd 1.0 • netbsd netbsd 1.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.2.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.3.3 • netbsd netbsd 1.5 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.1 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.2 • netbsd netbsd 1.5.3 • 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 • netbsd netbsd 3.0.1 • netbsd netbsd 3.0.2 • netbsd netbsd 3.1 • netbsd netbsd 4.0 • netbsd netbsd 4.0.1 • netbsd netbsd 5.0

Related

Weakness · not in database (1)

References