Netbsd Security Vulnerabilities

CVE-2009-2793

The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to a tempEIP pseudocode variable that is outside of the code-segment...

CVE-2009-0687

The pf_test_rule function in OpenBSD Packet Filter (PF), as used in OpenBSD 4.2 through 4.5, NetBSD 5.0 before RC3, MirOS 10 and earlier, and MidnightBSD 0.3-current allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic) via crafted IP packets that trigger a NULL pointer dereference during...

CVE-2009-2482

The pam_unix module in OpenPAM in NetBSD 4.0 before 4.0.2 and 5.0 before 5.0.1 allows local users to change the current root password if it is already known, even when they are not in the wheel...

CVE-2009-2483

libprop/prop_object.c in proplib in NetBSD 4.0 and 4.0.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (NULL pointer dereference and kernel panic) via a malformed externalized plist (XML form) containing an undefined...

CVE-2009-0689

Array index error in the (1) dtoa implementation in dtoa.c (aka pdtoa.c) and the (2) gdtoa (aka new dtoa) implementation in gdtoa/misc.c in libc, as used in multiple operating systems and products including in FreeBSD 6.4 and 7.2, NetBSD 5.0, OpenBSD 4.5, Mozilla Firefox 3.0.x before 3.0.15 and...

CVE-2009-0601

Format string vulnerability in Wireshark 0.99.8 through 1.0.5 on non-Windows platforms allows local users to cause a denial of service (application crash) via format string specifiers in the HOME environment...

CVE-2008-4609

The TCP implementation in (1) Linux, (2) platforms based on BSD Unix, (3) Microsoft Windows, (4) Cisco products, and probably other operating systems allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (connection queue exhaustion) via multiple vectors that manipulate information in the TCP state....

CVE-2008-2476

The IPv6 Neighbor Discovery Protocol (NDP) implementation in (1) FreeBSD 6.3 through 7.1, (2) OpenBSD 4.2 and 4.3, (3) NetBSD, (4) Force10 FTOS before E7.7.1.1, (5) Juniper JUNOS, and (6) Wind River VxWorks 5.x through 6.4 does not validate the origin of Neighbor Discovery messages, which allows...

CVE-2008-4247

ftpd in OpenBSD 4.3, FreeBSD 7.0, NetBSD 4.0, Solaris, and possibly other operating systems interprets long commands from an FTP client as multiple commands, which allows remote attackers to conduct cross-site request forgery (CSRF) attacks and execute arbitrary FTP commands via a long ftp:// URI.....

CVE-2008-3584

NetBSD 3.0, 3.1, and 4.0, when a pppoe instance exists, does not properly check the length of a PPPoE packet tag, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a crafted PPPoE...

CVE-2008-1391

Multiple integer overflows in libc in NetBSD 4.x, FreeBSD 6.x and 7.x, and probably other BSD and Apple Mac OS platforms allow context-dependent attackers to execute arbitrary code via large values of certain integer fields in the format argument to (1) the strfmon function in...

CVE-2008-1335

The ipsec4_get_ulp function in the kernel in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.1 and NetBSD-current before 20071028, when the fast_ipsec subsystem is enabled, allows remote attackers to bypass the IPsec policy by sending packets from a source machine with a different endianness than the destination machine, a.....

CVE-2008-1215

Stack-based buffer overflow in the command_Expand_Interpret function in command.c in ppp (aka user-ppp), as distributed in FreeBSD 6.3 and 7.0, OpenBSD 4.1 and 4.2, and the net/userppp package for NetBSD, allows local users to gain privileges via long commands containing "~"...

CVE-2008-1146

A certain pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) algorithm that uses XOR and 3-bit random hops (aka "Algorithm X3"), as used in OpenBSD 2.8 through 4.2, allows remote attackers to guess sensitive values such as DNS transaction IDs by observing a sequence of previously generated values. NOTE: this...

CVE-2008-1148

A certain pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) algorithm that uses ADD with 0 random hops (aka "Algorithm A0"), as used in OpenBSD 3.5 through 4.2 and NetBSD 1.6.2 through 4.0, allows remote attackers to guess sensitive values such as (1) DNS transaction IDs or (2) IP fragmentation IDs by...

CVE-2008-1147

A certain pseudo-random number generator (PRNG) algorithm that uses XOR and 2-bit random hops (aka "Algorithm X2"), as used in OpenBSD 2.6 through 3.4, Mac OS X 10 through 10.5.1, FreeBSD 4.4 through 7.0, and DragonFlyBSD 1.0 through 1.10.1, allows remote attackers to guess sensitive values such...

CVE-2007-3654

The display driver allocattr functions in NetBSD 3.0 through 4.0_BETA2, and NetBSD-current before 20070728, allow local users to cause a denial of service (panic) via a (1) negative or (2) large value in an ioctl call, as demonstrated by the vga_allocattr...

CVE-2007-4305

Multiple race conditions in the (1) Sudo monitor mode and (2) Sysjail policies in Systrace on NetBSD and OpenBSD allow local users to defeat system call interposition, and consequently bypass access control policy and...

CVE-2007-2242

The IPv6 protocol allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service via crafted IPv6 type 0 route headers (IPV6_RTHDR_TYPE_0) that create network amplification between two...

CVE-2007-1677

Multiple buffer overflows in the ISO network protocol support in the NetBSD kernel 2.0 through 4.0_BETA2, and NetBSD-current before 20070329, allow local users to execute arbitrary code via long parameters to certain functions, as demonstrated by a long sockaddr structure argument to the...

CVE-2007-1523

Heap-based buffer overflow in the kernel in NetBSD 3.0, certain versions of FreeBSD and OpenBSD, and possibly other BSD derived operating systems allows local users to have an unknown impact. NOTE: this information is based upon a vague pre-advisory with no actionable information. Details will be.....

CVE-2007-1273

Integer overflow in the ktruser function in NetBSD-current before 20061022, NetBSD 3 and 3-0 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2 before 20070209, when the kernel is built with the COMPAT_FREEBSD or COMPAT_DARWIN option, allows local users to cause a denial of service and possibly gain...

CVE-2006-6730

OpenBSD and NetBSD permit usermode code to kill the display server and write to the X.Org /dev/xf86 device, which allows local users with root privileges to reduce securelevel by replacing the System Management Mode (SMM) handler via a write to an SMRAM address within /dev/xf86 (aka the video card....

CVE-2006-6652

Buffer overflow in the glob implementation (glob.c) in libc in NetBSD-current before 20050914, NetBSD 2. and 3. before 20061203, and Apple Mac OS X before 2007-004, as used by the FTP daemon and tnftpd, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via a long pathname that results...

CVE-2006-6397

Integer overflow in banner/banner.c in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and OpenBSD might allow local users to modify memory via a long banner. NOTE: CVE and multiple third parties dispute this issue. Since banner is not setuid, an exploit would not cross privilege boundaries in normal operations. This issue is...

CVE-2006-6165

ld.so in FreeBSD, NetBSD, and possibly other BSD distributions does not remove certain harmful environment variables, which allows local users to gain privileges by passing certain environment variables to loading processes. NOTE: this issue has been disputed by a third party, stating that it is...

CVE-2006-6013

Integer signedness error in the fw_ioctl (FW_IOCTL) function in the FireWire (IEEE-1394) drivers (dev/firewire/fwdev.c) in various BSD kernels, including DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD 5.5, MidnightBSD 0.1-CURRENT before 20061115, NetBSD-current before 20061116, NetBSD-4 before 20061203, and TrustedBSD,...

CVE-2006-5215

The Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060317, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, allows local users to overwrite arbitrary files, or read another user's Xsession errors file, via a symlink attack on a /tmp/xses-$USER...

CVE-2006-5214

Race condition in the Xsession script, as used by X Display Manager (xdm) in NetBSD before 20060212, X.Org before 20060225, and Solaris 8 through 10 before 20061006, causes a user's Xsession errors file to have weak permissions before a chmod is performed, which allows local users to read Xsession....

CVE-2006-5218

Integer overflow in the systrace_preprepl function (STRIOCREPLACE) in systrace in OpenBSD 3.9 and NetBSD 3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash), gain privileges, or read arbitrary kernel memory via large numeric arguments to the systrace...

CVE-2006-4304

Buffer overflow in the sppp driver in FreeBSD 4.11 through 6.1, NetBSD 2.0 through 4.0 beta before 20060823, and OpenBSD 3.8 and 3.9 before 20060902 allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (panic), obtain sensitive information, and possibly execute arbitrary code via crafted Link...

CVE-2006-3202

The ip6_savecontrol function in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.0, under certain configurations, does not check to see if IPv4-mapped sockets are being used before processing IPv6 socket options, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an IPv4-mapped IPv6 socket with the...

CVE-2006-2205

The audio_write function in NetBSD 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) by using the audiosetinfo ioctl to change the sample rate of an audio...

CVE-2006-1833

Intel RNG Driver in NetBSD 1.6 through 3.0 may incorrectly detect the presence of the pchb interface, which will cause it to always generate the same random number, which allows remote attackers to more easily crack encryption keys generated from the...

CVE-2006-1814

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...

CVE-2006-1797

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...

CVE-2006-1587

NetBSD 1.6 up to 3.0, when a user has "set record" in .mailrc with the default umask set, creates the record file with 0644 permissions, which allows local users to read the record...

CVE-2006-1589

The elf_load_file function in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an ELF interpreter that does not have a PT_LOAD section in its header, which triggers a null...

CVE-2006-1588

The bridge ioctl (if_bridge code) in NetBSD 1.6 through 3.0 does not clear sensitive memory before copying ioctl results to the requesting process, which allows local users to obtain portions of kernel...

CVE-2006-0905

A "programming error" in fast_ipsec in FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE through 6.1-STABLE and NetBSD 2 through 3 does not properly update the sequence number associated with a Security Association, which allows packets to pass sequence number checks and allows remote attackers to capture IPSec packets and...

CVE-2006-0145

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...

CVE-2005-4352

The securelevels implementation in NetBSD 2.1 and earlier, and Linux 2.6.15 and earlier, allows local users to bypass time setting restrictions and set the clock backwards by setting the clock ahead to the maximum unixtime value (19 Jan 2038), which then wraps around to the minimum value (13 Dec...

CVE-2003-1289

The iBCS2 system call translator for statfs in NetBSD 1.5 through 1.5.3 and FreeBSD 4 up to 4.8-RELEASE-p2 and 5 up to 5.1-RELEASE-p1 allows local users to read portions of kernel memory (memory disclosure) via a large length parameter, which copies additional kernel memory into userland...

CVE-2002-2092

Race condition in exec in OpenBSD 4.0 and earlier, NetBSD 1.5.2 and earlier, and FreeBSD 4.4 and earlier allows local users to gain privileges by attaching a debugger to a process before the kernel has determined that the process is setuid or...

CVE-2004-2012

The systrace_exit function in the systrace utility for NetBSD-current and 2.0 before April 16, 2004, and certain FreeBSD ports, does not verify the owner of the /dec/systrace connection before setting euid to 0, which allows local users to gain root...

CVE-2004-1374

Multiple buffer overflows in NetBSD kernel may allow local users to execute arbitrary code and gain...

CVE-2004-1323

Multiple syscalls in the compat subsystem for NetBSD before 2.0 allow local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via a large signal number to (1) xxx_sys_kill, (2) xxx_sys_sigaction, and possibly other translation...

CVE-2004-0257

OpenBSD 3.4 and NetBSD 1.6 and 1.6.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) by sending an IPv6 packet with a small MTU to a listening port and then issuing a TCP connect to that...

CVE-2004-0114

The shmat system call in the System V Shared Memory interface for FreeBSD 5.2 and earlier, NetBSD 1.3 and earlier, and OpenBSD 2.6 and earlier, does not properly decrement a shared memory segment's reference count when the vm_map_find function fails, which could allow local users to gain read or...

CVE-2002-1337

Buffer overflow in Sendmail 5.79 to 8.12.7 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via certain formatted address fields, related to sender and recipient header comments as processed by the crackaddr function of...