SB2017012201 - Denial of service in NetBSD
Published: January 22, 2017
Security Bulletin ID
SB2017012201
Severity
Low
Patch available
YES
Number of vulnerabilities
1
Exploitation vector
Local access
Highest impact
Denial of service
Breakdown by Severity
- Low
- Medium
- High
- Critical
Description
This security bulletin contains information about 1 security vulnerability.
1) Memory leak (CVE-ID: N/A)
The vulnerability allows a local user to cause denial of service conditions.The vulnerability exists due to an error within sys/kern/uipc_usrreq.c file when calling the connect system call on a particular file descriptor with specific arguments. A local user can repeatedly send a specially crafted connect() system call to trigger a memory leak and consume all memory resources on the target system.
Successful exploitation of this vulnerability may allow a local user to cause denial of service (DoS).
Remediation
Install update from vendor's website.