CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6242

Published: Mar 07, 2017 | Modified: Mar 09, 2017
CVSS 3.x
5.5
MEDIUM
Source:
NVD
CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H
CVSS 2.x
4.9 MEDIUM
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and kernel panic) via a large ident value in a kevent system call.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 5.9 5.9
Openbsd Openbsd 5.8 5.8

References