CVE-2006-5218

high

Description

Integer overflow in the systrace_preprepl function (STRIOCREPLACE) in systrace in OpenBSD 3.9 and NetBSD 3 allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash), gain privileges, or read arbitrary kernel memory via large numeric arguments to the systrace ioctl.

References

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29392

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20392

http://www.osvdb.org/29570

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017009

http://secunia.com/advisories/22324

http://openbsd.org/errata.html#systrace

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-10-10

Updated: 2026-06-16

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

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

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.1

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

Severity: High

EPSS

EPSS: 0.00074