CVE-2002-1490

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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 2.1 Low

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2003-04-02

Last modified

2024-08-08

Affected products

• Netbsd (Netbsd)

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10115.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/7566
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5722