Vulnerabilities > CVE-2016-6245 - Memory Corruption and Denial of Service vulnerability in Openbsd 5.8/5.9

047910
CVSS 4.9 - MEDIUM
Attack vector
LOCAL
Attack complexity
LOW
Privileges required
NONE
Confidentiality impact
NONE
Integrity impact
NONE
Availability impact
COMPLETE
local
low complexity
openbsd

Summary

OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a large size in a getdents system call.

Vulnerable Configurations

Part Description Count
OS
Openbsd
2