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Unscored CVE-2006-6653 EUVD-2006-6636GHSA-889m-6cc9-v7f2

The accept function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029 allows local us…

Published Dec 20, 2006 · Updated Sep 17, 2024 · Assigned by mitre

Description

The accept function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029 allows local users to cause a denial of service (socket consumption) via an invalid (1) name or (2) namelen parameter, which may result in the socket never being closed (aka "a dangling socket").

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