CVE Catalog

CVE-2001-0734

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Hitachi Super-H architecture in NetBSD 1.5 and 1.4.1 allows a local user to gain privileges via modified Status Register contents, which are not properly handled by the sigreturn system call or the process_write_regs kernel routine.

Risk Assessment

This vulnerability may lead to privilege escalation by local users, posing a serious threat to system integrity.

Recommendation

It is recommended to update the system to the latest version of NetBSD to mitigate this vulnerability and to monitor local user access.

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Original NVD description (English source)

Hitachi Super-H architecture in NetBSD 1.5 and 1.4.1 allows a local user to gain privileges via modified Status Register contents, which are not properly handled by (1) the sigreturn system call or (2) the process_write_regs kernel routine.

Vulnerability data from NVD (NIST) · CISA KEV · EPSS