CVE-2006-6654: Netbsd

Medium severity, CVSS 4.3. EPSS: 0.9% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The sendmsg function in NetBSD-current before 20061023, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061024, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061029, when run on a 64-bit architecture, allows attackers to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via an invalid msg_controllen parameter to the sendit function.

Affected products

• Netbsd Netbsd: version 2.0 only; version 2.1 only; version 3.0 only; version 3.0.1 only

Published 2006-12-20. Last modified 2026-06-16.