Vulnerability in Netbsd

CVE-2009-2793

The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to a tempEIP pseudocode variable that is outside of the code-segment limits.

EPSS: 0.005 (40.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Netbsd — versions 0.8, 0.9, 1.0
  • N/a — versions n/a

Weakness classification (CWE)

References