CVE-2006-0145

2006-01-0923:00:00

mitre

www.cve.org

AI Score

6.4

Confidence

High

EPSS

0.001

Percentile

25.6%

JSON

The kernfs_xread function in kernfs in NetBSD 1.6 through 2.1, and OpenBSD 3.8, does not properly validate file offsets against negative 32-bit values that occur as a result of truncation, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory and gain privileges via the lseek system call.

References

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-001.txt.asc

secunia.com/advisories/18388

secunia.com/advisories/18712

securityreason.com/securityalert/405

www.osvdb.org/22293

www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/423827/100/0/threaded

www.securityfocus.com/bid/16173

www.securitylab.net/research/2006/02/advisory_netbsd_openbsd_kernfs.html

exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/24035