CVE-2008-0384

Severity: medium (CVSS 4.9 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2008-01-22 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

OpenBSD 4.2 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) by calling the SIOCGIFRTLABEL IOCTL on an interface that does not have a route label, which triggers a NULL pointer dereference when the return value from the rtlabel_id2name function is not checked.

Affected products

OpenBSD: 4.2

References

http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=120007327504064
http://secunia.com/advisories/28473
http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#005_ifrtlabel
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27252
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019188
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4935
http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=120007327504064
http://secunia.com/advisories/28473
http://www.openbsd.org/errata42.html#005_ifrtlabel
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/27252
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1019188
https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/4935

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