CVE-2005-4741: Netbsd

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 1.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NetBSD 1.6, NetBSD 2.0 through 2.1, and NetBSD-current before 20051031 allows local users to gain privileges by attaching a debugger to a setuid/setgid (P_SUGID) process that performs an exec without a reset of real credentials.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 1.6 only; version 1.6.1 only; version 1.6.2 only; version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; …

Published 2005-12-31. Last modified 2026-06-16.