CVE-2006-6656 Information

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in ptrace in NetBSD-current before 20061027 NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061027 and NetBSD 2.x before 20061119 allows local users to read kernel memory and obtain sensitive information via certain manipulations of a PT_LWPINFO request which leads to a memory leak and information leak.

Reference

ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-025.txt.asc http://securitytracker.com/id?1017292