CVE-2005-4782

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 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: 2005-12-31 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

NetBSD 2.0 before 2.0.4, 2.1 before 2.1.1, and 3, when the kernel is compiled with "options DIAGNOSTIC," allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel assertion panic) via a negative linger time in the SO_LINGER socket option.

Affected products

Netbsd: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1

References

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c.diff?r1=1.111&r2=1.112
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/11/08/0010.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/10/21/0038.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15289
http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c.diff?r1=1.111&r2=1.112
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/11/08/0010.html
http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/10/21/0038.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15289

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