Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-1797 - Local Denial of Service vulnerability in NetBSD SIOCGIFALIAS IOCTL
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
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.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 10 |