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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 memory...
[SA19616] NetBSD "sysctl()" Local Denial of Service Vulnerability
TITLE: NetBSD "sysctl" Local Denial of Service Vulnerability SECUNIA ADVISORY ID: SA19616 VERIFY ADVISORY: http://secunia.com/advisories/19616/ CRITICAL: Not critical IMPACT: DoS WHERE: Local system OPERATING SYSTEM: NetBSD 1.x http://secunia.com/product/255/ DESCRIPTION: A vulnerability has been...
Mandrake Linux Security Advisory : kernel (MDKSA-2006:040)
A number of vulnerabilities were discovered and corrected in the Linux 2.6 kernel : The udpv6getport function in udp.c, when running IPv6, allows local users to cause a Denial of Service infinite loop and crash CVE-2005-2973. The mqopen system call in certain situations can decrement a counter...
Ubuntu 4.10 / 5.04 / 5.10 : linux-source-2.6.8.1/-2.6.10/-2.6.12 vulnerabilities (USN-244-1)
Doug Chapman discovered a flaw in the reference counting in the sysmqopen function. By calling this function in a special way, a local attacker could exploit this to cause a kernel crash. CVE-2005-3356 Karl Janmar discovered that the /proc file system module used signed data types in a wrong way....
CVE-2005-4618
CVE-2005-4618 corresponds to a Linux kernel local-denial-of-service issue caused by a buffer overflow in sysctl writes. Affected are Linux kernel 2.6.x before 2.6.15; exploitation could corrupt user memory or cause a denial of service via a long string, with the caveat that the vulnerability may ...
Linux kernel multiple vulnerabilities
TwinHan DST Frontend/Card buffer overflow,kernel/sysctl.c off-by-one, fiblookup netlink message memory corruption, setmempolicy DoS...
CVE-2005-2709
The sysctl functionality sysctl.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel oops and possibly execute code by opening an interface file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/, waiting until the interface is unregistered, then obtaining and modifying function...
CVE-2005-2709
The sysctl functionality sysctl.c in Linux kernel before 2.6.14.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service kernel oops and possibly execute code by opening an interface file in /proc/sys/net/ipv4/conf/, waiting until the interface is unregistered, then obtaining and modifying function...
Linux Kernel 2.6.x - Sysctl Unregistration Local Denial of Service
/ source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15365/info Linux Kernel is reported prone to a local denial-of-service vulnerability. This issue arises from a failure to properly unregister kernel resources when network devices are removed. This issue allows local attackers to deny service to...
Unprivilegued settings for FreeBSD kernel variables
CATEGORY: kern INTRODUCTION: i have found security threat in basic security facility in BSD systems that allows to lower sysctl variable in this case to bypass security settings, root privilegues are needed DESCRIPTION: sysctl8 ... The sysctl utility retrieves kernel state and allows processes wi...
OpenBSD sysctl DoS
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OpenBSD 3.33.4 - sysctl Local Denial of Service
OpenBSD 3.33.4 - sysctl Local Denial of Service // source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9073/info A denial of service vulnerability has been reported for OpenBSD, specifically when handling malformed calls to sysctl. By invoking systcl and passing a specific flag in conjunction with a negati...
OpenBSD 3.3/3.4 - 'sysctl' Local Denial of Service
// source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/9073/info A denial of service vulnerability has been reported for OpenBSD, specifically when handling malformed calls to sysctl. By invoking systcl and passing a specific flag in conjunction with a negative argument may trigger a kernel panic. This cou...
FreeBSD 4.x - Process Concealment Bypass
FreeBSD 4.x - Process Concealment Bypass source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4768/info In FreeBSD, setting kern.psshowallprocs=0 via the sysctl call is meant to disable normal users from seeing any running processes that are not owned by them. The current implementation of this feature fail...
FreeBSD 4.x - Process Concealment Bypass
source: https://www.securityfocus.com/bid/4768/info In FreeBSD, setting kern.psshowallprocs=0 via the sysctl call is meant to disable normal users from seeing any running processes that are not owned by them. The current implementation of this feature fails to protest system process information. ...
CVE-2001-0482
The CVE-2001-0482 entry concerns Argus PitBull LX. It describes a configuration error that lets root bypass access controls and potentially cause a denial of service or run arbitrary commands by altering kernel tunables (MaxFiles, MaxInodes, ModProbePath) in /proc/sys via sysctl. The connected re...
Linux kernel does not properly validate user input via sysctl for negative value
Overview Unprivileged local users can exploit the sysctl Linux kernel program to gain privileged access. Description A program called sysctl in the Linux kernel allows a privileged local user to read or write runtime system settings. Unprivileged local users are also allowed to use sysctl to read...
CVE-2001-0482
Configuration error in Argus PitBull LX allows root users to bypass specified access control restrictions and cause a denial of service or execute arbitrary commands by modifying kernel variables such as MaxFiles, MaxInodes, and ModProbePath in /proc/sys via calls to sysctl...
CVE-2001-0316
CVE-2001-0316 affects Linux kernels 2.2 and 2.4 where sysctl can be invoked with a negative length, allowing unprivileged local users to read kernel memory and potentially obtain root privileges. Mitigation in the public records points to upgrading to kernel 2.2.19 or later (and vendor advisories...