NetBSD 1.4 through 1.6 beta allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a series of calls to the TIOCSCTTY ioctl, which causes an integer overflow in a structure counter and sets the counter to zero, which frees memory that is still in use by other processes.
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cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2004-09-01T04:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-08T03:26:28.637Z

Reserved: 2003-02-05T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2002-1490

cve-icon Vulnrichment

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cve-icon NVD

Status : Analyzed

Published: 2003-04-02T05:00:00.000

Modified: 2008-09-05T20:30:44.187

Link: CVE-2002-1490

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