NetBSD Sysctl Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

BID:17498

Info

NetBSD Sysctl Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 17498
Class: Design Error
CVE:
Remote: No
Local: Yes
Published: Apr 13 2006 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 13 2006 07:42PM
Credit: Matthias Drochner discovered this issue.
Vulnerable: NetBSD NetBSD 2.1
NetBSD NetBSD 2.0.3
NetBSD NetBSD 2.0.2
NetBSD NetBSD 2.0.1
NetBSD NetBSD 2.0
NetBSD NetBSD 1.6.2
NetBSD NetBSD 1.6.1
NetBSD NetBSD 1.6 beta
NetBSD NetBSD 1.6
Navision Financials Server 3.0
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

NetBSD Sysctl Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

NetBSD is prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability.

An attacker can allocate all available physical memory because the size of a user-supplied buffer isn't checked against system resource limits. This may exhaust all physical memory on a system.

A successful attack may trigger a crash in the kernel.

Exploit / POC

NetBSD Sysctl Local Denial of Service Vulnerability


A proof of concept has been developed, but is not publicly available.

Currently we are not aware of any exploits for this issue. If you feel we are in error or are aware of more recent information, please mail us at: [email protected]

Solution / Fix

NetBSD Sysctl Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

Solution:

NetBSD has released an advisory and fixes to address this issue.

References

NetBSD Sysctl Local Denial of Service Vulnerability

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