CVE-2006-5218

OpenBSD 3.9 & NetBSD 3 - Privilege Escalation

Title source: llm
STIX 2.1

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 (7)

Core 7
Core References
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_xf
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29392
Third Party Advisory, VDB Entry vdb-entry x_refsource_osvdb
http://www.osvdb.org/29570
Patch, Vendor Advisory third-party-advisory x_refsource_secunia
http://secunia.com/advisories/22324
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_bid
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20392
Patch vdb-entry x_refsource_sectrack
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017009
Patch vendor-advisory x_refsource_openbsd
http://openbsd.org/errata.html#systrace

Scores

EPSS 0.0008
EPSS Percentile 22.8%

Details

Status published
Products (3)
netbsd/netbsd 3.0
openbsd/openbsd 3.8
openbsd/openbsd 3.9
Published Oct 10, 2006
Tracked Since Feb 18, 2026