CVE-2006-6656: Netbsd

Low severity, CVSS 2.1. EPSS: 0.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Unspecified vulnerability in ptrace in NetBSD-current before 20061027, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061027, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061119 allows local users to read kernel memory and obtain sensitive information via certain manipulations of a PT_LWPINFO request, which leads to a memory leak and information leak.

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.