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CVE-2002-1490

• Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 0.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2003-04-02 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected products

• Netbsd: 1.4, 1.4.1, 1.4.2, 1.4.3, 1.5, 1.5.1 (+3)

References

• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10115.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/7566
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5722
• http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/10115.php
• http://www.osvdb.org/7566
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/5722

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