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CVE-2006-1589

• 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: 2006-04-03 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The elf_load_file function in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an ELF interpreter that does not have a PT_LOAD section in its header, which triggers a null dereference.

Affected products

• Netbsd: 2.0, 2.0.1, 2.0.2, 2.0.3, 2.1, 3.0

References

• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015848
• http://www.osvdb.org/24576
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25690
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1015848
• http://www.osvdb.org/24576
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25690

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