Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-4516 - Local Denial of Service vulnerability in Freebsd 6.0
Attack vector
LOCAL Attack complexity
LOW Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE Summary
Integer signedness error in FreeBSD 6.0-RELEASE allows local users to cause a denial of service (memory corruption and kernel panic) via a PT_LWPINFO ptrace command with a large negative data value that satisfies a signed maximum value check but is used in an unsigned copyout function call.
Vulnerable Configurations
Part | Description | Count |
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OS | 1 |
Exploit-Db
description | FreeBSD 5.4 / 6.0 (ptrace PT_LWPINFO) Local Denial of Service Exploit. CVE-2006-4516. Dos exploit for bsd platform |
id | EDB-ID:2524 |
last seen | 2016-01-31 |
modified | 2006-10-12 |
published | 2006-10-12 |
reporter | kokanin |
source | https://www.exploit-db.com/download/2524/ |
title | FreeBSD 5.4 / 6.0 ptrace PT_LWPINFO Local Denial of Service Exploit |