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CVE-2006-5218

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.6 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: yes
• Published: 2006-10-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the systrace_preprepl function (STRIOCREPLACE) in systrace in OpenBSD 3.9 and NetBSD 3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash), gain privileges, or read arbitrary kernel memory via large numeric arguments to the systrace ioctl.

Affected products

• Netbsd: 3.0
• OpenBSD: 3.8, 3.9

References

• http://openbsd.org/errata.html#systrace
• http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22324
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017009
• http://www.osvdb.org/29570
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20392
• https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29392
• http://openbsd.org/errata.html#systrace
• http://scary.beasts.org/security/CESA-2006-003.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22324
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017009
• http://www.osvdb.org/29570

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