CVE-2006-6654 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

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.

Published: 2006-12-20

Score: 4.3 Medium

EPSS: < 1% Very Low

KEV: No

Impact:

Action:

Analysis

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Default status is the baseline for the product, each version can override it (e.g. patched versions marked unaffected).

Vendor Product Default status Versions

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n/a

affected

Version	Status	Constraints
`n/a`	affected	—

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.1:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.0:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:3.0.1:::::::*

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Remediation

No vendor fix or workaround currently provided.

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Tracking

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-6637	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.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Network

Access Complexity Medium

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00481.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

References

Link	Providers
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-026.txt.asc
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017293

History

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Subscriptions

Netbsd Netbsd

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-12-20T02:00:00.000Z

Updated: 2024-09-17T02:31:14.079Z

Reserved: 2006-12-19T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-6654

Vulnrichment

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NVD

Status : Modified

Published: 2006-12-20T02:28:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-6654

Redhat

No data.

OpenCVE Enrichment

No data.

Weaknesses

NVD-CWE-Other

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