CVE-2006-1797 Information

Description

The kernel in NetBSD-current before September 28 2005 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to gather information on a non-existent alias of a network interface which causes a NULL pointer dereference.

Reference

http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/netbsd/2006-q2/0014.html http://secunia.com/advisories/19615 http://securitytracker.com/id?1015908 http://www.osvdb.org/24578 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/17497 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/25766