CVE-2006-5550 describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability affecting the kernel in FreeBSD 6.1 and OpenBSD 4.0. An attacker can exploit this by sending specific ioctl requests to /dev/crypto, leading to system unavailability. With a CVSS score of 4.9 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C), this vulnerability requires local access and has a low attack complexity, but can result in a complete loss of availability. While there is no evidence of active exploitation, a proof-of-concept exploit exists on ExploitDB, and there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding this older CVE.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.1:release:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.1:release_p10:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
6.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:6.1:stable:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
4.0CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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