20011202 OpenBSD local DoSmailing list
http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/bugtraq/2001-12/0014.html CVE-2001-1559
MEDIUM
OpenBSD 2.x/3.0 - User Mode Return Value Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2001-1559 has a selected CVSS score of 5.5 (medium); EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
Description
The uipc system calls (uipc_syscalls.c) in OpenBSD 2.9 and 3.0 provide user mode return instead of versus rval kernel mode values to the fdrelease function, which allows local users to cause a denial of service and trigger a null dereference.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBOpenBSD 2.x/3.0 - User Mode Return Value Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby Marco PeereboomNot analyzed1 file
References
4[OpenBSD] 20011202 Code that crashes kernel at will + proposed patchmailing list
http://monkey.org/openbsd/archive/tech/0112/msg00015.html openbsd-retval-null-dos(7690)vdb entry
http://www.iss.net/security_center/static/7690.php nvd.nist.gov
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2001-1559