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CVE-2006-5550

• Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 1.0% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: yes
• Published: 2006-10-26 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

The kernel in FreeBSD 6.1 and OpenBSD 4.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service via unspecified vectors involving certain ioctl requests to /dev/crypto.

Affected products

• FreeBSD: 6.1-release, 6.1-release_p10, 6.1-stable
• OpenBSD: 4.0

References

• http://elegerov.blogspot.com/2006/10/here-is-lame-proof-of-concept-code-for.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22543
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20713
• http://elegerov.blogspot.com/2006/10/here-is-lame-proof-of-concept-code-for.html
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22543
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20713

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