CVE-2002-1490 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NetBSD versions 1.4 through 1.6 beta. A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic by repeatedly calling the TIOCSCTTY ioctl, leading to an integer overflow in a structure counter and subsequent memory corruption. The vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and only impacting availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code, or significant community discussion surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4:*:alpha:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4:*:arm32:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4:*:sparc:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.4:*:x86:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P
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