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CVE-2006-3824

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2006-07-25 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

systeminfo.c for Sun Solaris allows local users to read kernel memory via a 0 variable count argument to the sysinfo system call, which causes a -1 argument to be used by the copyout function. NOTE: this issue has been referred to as an integer overflow, but it is probably more like a signedness error or integer underflow.

Affected Platforms

Sun Solaris

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References