CVE-2006-6654 Denial of service in n/a
Attackers can cause a kernel panic and denial of service on 64-bit NetBSD systems by sending a malformed sendmsg request with an invalid control length.
- Exploited in the wild
- Not known
- Login needed
- Not needed
- Attackable
- Over the internet
- Victim action needed
- Not needed
- Fix
- None listed
What is CVE-2006-6654?
CVE-2006-6654 is a medium-severity denial of service vulnerability in Netbsd Netbsd, published on 20 Dec 2006. An attacker can exploit it over the internet without logging in, with no action from the victim.
Official description
The sendmsg function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029, when run on a 64-bit architecture, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via an invalid msg_controllen parameter to the sendit function.
Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6654?
It affects 1 product.
Products include Netbsd Netbsd.
How do I fix CVE-2006-6654?
No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6654 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.
Upgrade, then put limits on request size, rate and nesting depth so one client cannot exhaust the service. More about Denial of service.
Is CVE-2006-6654 being exploited?
There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6654 in the wild and no public exploit code.
Other vulnerabilities in Netbsd Netbsd
Sources
Also known as GHSA-r5rf-93rj-rvfq.