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.
References
Link | Resource |
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ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-007.txt.asc | |
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10115.php | Patch Vendor Advisory |
http://www.osvdb.org/7566 | |
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5722 | Patch Vendor Advisory |
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MITRE Information
Status: PUBLISHED
Assigner: mitre
Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00
Updated: 2004-08-18T00:00:00
Reserved: 2003-02-05T00:00:00
Link: CVE-2002-1490
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NVD Information
Status : Analyzed
Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000
Modified: 2008-09-05T20:30:44.187
Link: CVE-2002-1490
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CWE