CVE-2006-6654 (GCVE-0-2006-6654)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-12-20 02:00 – Updated: 2024-09-17 02:31
VLAI
EPSS
VEX
Summary
The sendmsg function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029, when run on a 64-bit architecture, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via an invalid msg_controllen parameter to the sendit function.
Severity
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
References
2 references
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