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Unscored CVE-2002-1490 EUVD-2002-1473GHSA-w64f-27fx-6p6r

NetBSD 1.4 through 1.6 beta allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a series of calls to the TIOCSCTTY ioctl, wh…

Published Sep 1, 2004 · Updated Aug 8, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

NetBSD 1.4 through 1.6 beta allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a series of calls to the TIOCSCTTY ioctl, which causes an integer overflow in a structure counter and sets the counter to zero, which frees memory that is still in use by other processes.

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