CVE-2006-1589 Information

Description

The elf_load_file function in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an ELF interpreter that does not have a PT_LOAD section in its header which triggers a null dereference.

Reference

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-008.txt.asc http://securitytracker.com/id?1015848 http://www.osvdb.org/24576 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25690