CVE-2006-6653 Information

Description

The accept function in NetBSD-current before 20061023 NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024 and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029 allows local users to cause a denial of service (socket consumption) via an invalid (1) name or (2) namelen parameter which may result in the socket never being closed (aka \a dangling socket).

Reference

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-026.txt.asc http://securitytracker.com/id?1017293