Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-7252 - Numeric Errors vulnerability in multiple products

047910
CVSS 5.0 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
NETWORK
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
PARTIAL
network
low complexity
freebsd
netbsd
CWE-189

Summary

Integer overflow in the calloc function in libc/stdlib/malloc.c in jemalloc in libc for FreeBSD 6.4 and NetBSD makes it easier for context-dependent attackers to perform memory-related attacks such as buffer overflows via a large size value, which triggers a memory allocation of one byte.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Freebsd
1
OS
Netbsd
1

Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE)