CVE-2005-4776 describes an integer overflow vulnerability in the FreeBSD compatibility code within NetBSD-current, NetBSD-3, NetBSD-2.0, and NetBSD-2 prior to 20050913, as well as NetBSD-1.6 before 20050914. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a denial of service through heap corruption or a system crash, with the potential for privilege escalation to root. The vulnerability carries a CVSS score of 7.2 (High), indicating a local attack vector with low complexity, leading to complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impacts. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6:beta:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
1.6.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:1.6.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
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:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.