Vulnerabilities > CVE-2002-1490 - Buffer Overflow vulnerability in NetBSD Repeated TIOSCTTY IOCTL
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
PARTIAL Summary
NetBSD 1.4 through 1.6 beta allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a series of calls to the TIOCSCTTY ioctl, which causes an integer overflow in a structure counter and sets the counter to zero, which frees memory that is still in use by other processes.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 24 |