CVE-2006-1797

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.4% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-04-18 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The kernel in NetBSD-current before September 28, 2005 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to gather information on a non-existent alias of a network interface, which causes a NULL pointer dereference.

Affected products

Netbsd: 1.6, 1.6-beta, 1.6.1, 1.6.2, 2.0, 2.0.1 (+4)

References

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/netbsd/2006-q2/0014.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19615
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015908
http://www.osvdb.org/24578
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17497
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25766
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/netbsd/2006-q2/0014.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/19615
http://securitytracker.com/id?1015908
http://www.osvdb.org/24578
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17497
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25766

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