CVE-2005-4779 Information

Description

verifiedexecioctl in verified_exec.c in NetBSD 2.0.2 calls NDINIT with UIO_USERSPACE rather than UID_SYSSPACE which removes the functionality of the verified exec kernel subsystem and might allow local users to execute Trojan horse programs.

Reference

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/verified_exec.c.diff?r1=1.4&r2=1.4.2.1&f=h http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/10/31/0000.html http://releng.netbsd.org/cgi-bin/req-2-0.cgi?show=1988 http://www.osvdb.org/20725