CVE-2001-0993: Netbsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

sendmsg function in NetBSD 1.3 through 1.5 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel trap or panic) via a msghdr structure with a large msg_controllen length.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.3 only; version 1.3.1 only; version 1.3.2 only; version 1.3.3 only; version 1.4 only; version 1.4.1 only; …

Published 2001-07-24. Last modified 2026-06-16.