CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2016-6350

NULL Pointer Dereference

Published: Mar 07, 2017 | Modified: Apr 20, 2025
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 (NULL pointer dereference and panic) via a sysctl call with a path starting with 10,9.

Weakness

The product dereferences a pointer that it expects to be valid but is NULL.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Openbsd Openbsd 5.8 (including) 5.8 (including)
Openbsd Openbsd 5.9 (including) 5.9 (including)

Potential Mitigations

References