# CVE-2006-3202: Denial of service in n/a

> Local attackers can crash the system by sending IPv4 packets through IPv4-mapped IPv6 sockets with specific options enabled.

- **Severity:** Medium 4.9 (`AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C`)
- **Exploited in the wild:** Not known
- **Login needed:** Any signed-in user
- **Attackable:** Local or same network only
- **Victim action needed:** Not needed
- **Fix available:** No
- **Published:** 23 Jun 2006
- **Updated:** 7 Aug 2024
- **Also known as:** GHSA-vj6j-x8fq-xj4j

## What is CVE-2006-3202?

CVE-2006-3202 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netbsd Netbsd, published on 23 Jun 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

### Official description

The ip6_savecontrol function in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.0, under certain configurations, does not check to see if IPv4-mapped sockets are being used before processing IPv6 socket options, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) by creating an IPv4-mapped IPv6 socket with the SO_TIMESTAMP socket option set, then sending an IPv4 packet through the socket.

## Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3202?

It affects 1 product.


Products: Netbsd Netbsd.

## How do I fix CVE-2006-3202?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3202 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

## Is CVE-2006-3202 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3202 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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## Fix prompt for AI coding agents

```text
Check this codebase for CVE-2006-3202 and fix it if it is affected.

What it is: CVE-2006-3202 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netbsd Netbsd, published on 23 Jun 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.
Exploitation: There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3202 in the wild and no public exploit code.

Affected product: Netbsd Netbsd. No package-level version data is available, so check the vendor advisory linked from the reference page.

Task:
1. Search the dependency manifests and lockfiles (for example package.json, package-lock.json, requirements.txt, poetry.lock, uv.lock, pom.xml, build.gradle, go.mod, Cargo.lock, Gemfile.lock) and any Dockerfiles for the affected packages, including transitive dependencies.
2. If an affected version is in use, upgrade it to the fixed version for its release line with the project's package manager, so the lockfile is regenerated. Prefer the smallest upgrade that fixes it.
3. If there is no fix, or the upgrade would break the build, do not guess: explain the risk and the safest workaround instead.
4. Run the tests and summarise what changed and why.
5. If nothing in the project is affected, say so and change nothing.

Reference: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3202/ (Markdown: https://insights.sbomify.com/CVE-2006-3202/index.md)
```

## Sources

- CVE record: https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-3202
- NVD: https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-3202
- OSV: https://osv.dev/vulnerability/CVE-2006-3202

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