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CVE-2002-1490

LOW CVSS: 2.1 Published: 2003-04-02 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

NetBSD 1.4 through 1.6 beta allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a series of calls to the TIOCSCTTY ioctl, which causes an integer overflow in a structure counter and sets the counter to zero, which frees memory that is still in use by other processes.

Affected Platforms

Netbsd Netbsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References