CVE-2006-1589: Netbsd

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

The elf_load_file function in NetBSD 2.0 through 3.0 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel crash) via an ELF interpreter that does not have a PT_LOAD section in its header, which triggers a null dereference.

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; version 3.0 only

Published 2006-04-03. Last modified 2026-06-16.