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OpenBSD Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities

by Marianna Schmudlach Nov 28, 2003 1:00AM PST

Secunia Advisory: SA10309
Release Date: 2003-11-28

Critical: Not critical
Impact: DoS

Where: Local system

OS: OpenBSD 3.x

Description:
Some vulnerabilities have been identified in OpenBSD, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerabilities are caused due to errors in the semctl(), semop(), and sysctl() functions when handling certain arguments, which may cause a crash.

Solution:
Apply patches.

More: http://www.secunia.com/advisories/10309/