CVE-2005-4733 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NetBSD 2.0 (before 20050316) and NetBSD-current (before 20050112). A local attacker can trigger an infinite loop and system hang by calling the F_CLOSEM fcntl with a parameter value of 0. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low severity due to requiring local access and having no impact on confidentiality or integrity, only availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
2.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
No social media mentions found for this CVE.
The average CVE in this peer group has 0.0 Twitter, 0.0 Reddit, 0.1 Bluesky, 0.0 Mastodon, and 0.4 GitHub 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 records are not available for this CVE.