CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2005-4783

Published: Dec 31, 2005 | Modified: Sep 05, 2008
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
2.1 LOW
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

kernfs_xread in kernfs_vnops.c in NetBSD before 20050831 does not check for a negative offset when reading the message buffer, which allows local users to read arbitrary kernel memory.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Netbsd Netbsd 1.6 (including) 1.6 (including)
Netbsd Netbsd 2.0 (including) 2.0 (including)
Netbsd Netbsd 2.0.3 (including) 2.0.3 (including)
Netbsd Netbsd 2.1 (including) 2.1 (including)

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