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CVE-2002-1490

11
FAUCET Score

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.

Impacted Technologies

VendorProductVersion(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 Data

CVSS version used by this source: 2.0

2.1LOW

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Confidentiality Impact
NONE
Integrity Impact
NONE
Availability Impact
PARTIAL
Access Vector
LOCAL
Access Complexity
LOW
Authentication
NONE
Exploitability Score
3.9
Impact Score
2.9
CvssVersion
2.0

Exploit Intelligence

EPSS Score
0.33%
Probability of exploitation in next 30 days
EPSS Percentile
25.9%
Percentile rank of EPSS score among Peer Group
As of 2026-07-27
Model: v2026.06.15
This CVE's current EPSS score of 0.0033 is in the 18th percentile among its peer group of 2,096 CVEs.

Social Chatter

No social media mentions found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.0 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.6 GitHub mentions.

Media Mentions

No media coverage found for this CVE.

The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.

Remediation

Remediation records are not available for this CVE.

References

ftp.netbsd.org / pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-007.txt.asc
iss.net / security_center/static/10115.php
PatchVendor Advisory
osvdb.org / 7566
securityfocus.com / bid/5722
PatchVendor Advisory