CVE-2005-4782: Netbsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

NetBSD 2.0 before 2.0.4, 2.1 before 2.1.1, and 3, when the kernel is compiled with "options DIAGNOSTIC," allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel assertion panic) via a negative linger time in the SO_LINGER socket option.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 2.0 only; version 2.0.1 only; version 2.0.2 only; version 2.0.3 only; version 2.1 only

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