CVE-2006-1797 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NetBSD-current kernels prior to September 28, 2005. A local attacker can trigger a system crash by using the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl on a non-existent network interface alias, leading to a NULL pointer dereference. This vulnerability has a CVSS score of 4.9, indicating a low attack complexity and requiring local access, with the sole impact being system availability. 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:N/I:N/A:C
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Remediation records are not available for this CVE.