CVE-2006-1814

CVE-2006-1814 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability affecting NetBSD versions 1.6, 2.0, 2.1, and 3.0. A local attacker can exploit this by using the sysctl system call to lock a large buffer into physical memory, leading to memory exhaustion. This vulnerability has a low severity CVSS score of 2.1, indicating a local attack vector with low complexity and a potential impact of partial availability loss. There is no evidence of active exploitation, publicly available exploit code, or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this CVE.