CVE-2005-4782

medium

Description

NetBSD 2.0 before 2.0.4, 2.1 before 2.1.1, and 3, when the kernel is compiled with "options DIAGNOSTIC," allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel assertion panic) via a negative linger time in the SO_LINGER socket option.

References

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/15289

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/source-changes/2005/10/21/0038.html

http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2005/11/08/0010.html

http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/kern/uipc_socket.c.diff?r1=1.111&r2=1.112

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2005-12-31

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.9

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 5.5

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H

Severity: Medium

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00047