CVE-2006-1589 (GCVE-0-2006-1589)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-04-03 10:00
Modified
2024-08-07 17:19
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
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.
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