Security Advisory

CVE-2006-1797

CVE vulnerability detail — eXtreme Datacenter Security Operations

Published 2006-04-18 10:00:00
Last updated 2024-08-07 17:27:28
Assigner mitre
State PUBLISHED

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.