CVE-2008-0384 describes a denial-of-service vulnerability in OpenBSD 4.2. A local attacker can trigger a kernel panic by calling the SIOCGIFRTLABEL IOCTL on an interface without a route label, 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 primary impact being system availability. While not actively exploited in the wild or on any hot lists, exploit code is publicly available via ExploitDB, though there is minimal community discussion or media coverage surrounding it.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
4.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:openbsd:openbsd:4.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
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