CVE-2006-1797: Netbsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.9. EPSS: 0.4% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The kernel in NetBSD-current before September 28, 2005 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash) by using the SIOCGIFALIAS ioctl to gather information on a non-existent alias of a network interface, which causes a NULL pointer dereference.

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 2006-04-18. Last modified 2026-06-16.