National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-1814

Overview

NetBSD 1.6, 2.0, 2.1 and 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory exhaustion) by using the sysctl system call to lock a large buffer into physical memory.

Impact

CVSS Severity (version 2.0 upgrade from v1.0):

CVSS Version 2 Metrics:

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External Source: BID

Name: 17498

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17498

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1015909

Hyperlink:http://securitytracker.com/id?1015909

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 19616

Type: Advisory

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/19616

External Source: XF

Name: bsd-sysctl-dos(25764)

Hyperlink:http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/25764

External Source: OSVDB

Name: 24579

Hyperlink:http://www.osvdb.org/24579