CVE Catalog

CVE-2005-4776

High
Published: Translated: NVD NIST

Summary

Integer overflow in the FreeBSD compatibility code (freebsd_misc.c) in NetBSD-current, NetBSD-3, NetBSD-2.0, NetBSD-2 before 20050913, and NetBSD-1.6 before 20050914. Local users can cause heap corruption, system crash, and potentially gain root privileges.

Risk Assessment

The risk for the organization includes local privilege escalation to root, potentially leading to full system compromise and data loss.

Recommendation

Immediately update NetBSD to a patched version (after 20050913 for 2.x and 3.x, after 20050914 for 1.6.x) or apply the security patch.

Related vulnerabilities

Original NVD description (English source)

Integer overflow in the FreeBSD compatibility code (freebsd_misc.c) in NetBSD-current, NetBSD-3, NetBSD-2.0, and NetBSD-2 before 20050913; and NetBSD-1.6 before 20050914; allows local users to cause a denial of service (heap corruption or system crash) and possibly gain root privileges.

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