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CVE-2006-6653
- Severity: low (CVSS 1.7 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: 2006-12-20 · updated 2026-06-16
- Weakness: CWE-20
Description
The accept function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029 allows local users to cause a denial of service (socket consumption) via an invalid (1) name or (2) namelen parameter, which may result in the socket never being closed (aka "a dangling socket").
Affected products
- Netbsd: 2.0, 3.0, 3.0.1, current
References
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