NetBSD 1.4 through 1.6 beta allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a series of calls to the TIOCSCTTY ioctl, which causes an integer overflow in a structure counter and sets the counter to zero, which frees memory that is still in use by other processes.
References
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http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10115.php | Patch Vendor Advisory |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5722 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-007.txt.asc | |
http://www.osvdb.org/7566 |
Configurations
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Information
Published : 2003-04-01 21:00
Updated : 2008-09-05 13:30
NVD link : CVE-2002-1490
Mitre link : CVE-2002-1490
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CWE
Products Affected
netbsd
- netbsd