CVE-2005-4783

2022-10-0316:22:44

mitre

www.cve.org

netbsd

kernfs_xread

vulnerability

kernel memory

6.2 Medium

AI Score

Confidence

High

0.0004 Low

EPSS

Percentile

5.1%

JSON

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.

References

cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/miscfs/kernfs/kernfs_vnops.c

cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/miscfs/kernfs/kernfs_vnops.c.diff?r1=1.110&r2=1.111&f=h

mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html

releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-3.cgi?show=727

securitytracker.com/id?1015132

www.osvdb.org/20729

www.packetstormsecurity.org/0601-advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-001.txt