CVE-2009-3572
Published Oct 6, 2009
Last updated 15 years ago
Overview
- Description
- OpenBSD 4.4, 4.5, and 4.6, when running on an i386 kernel, does not properly handle XMM exceptions, which allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via unspecified vectors.
- Source
- cve@mitre.org
- NVD status
- Analyzed
Social media
- Hype score
- Not currently trending
Risk scores
CVSS 2.0
- Type
- Primary
- Base score
- 4.9
- Impact score
- 6.9
- Exploitability score
- 3.9
- Vector string
- AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Weaknesses
- nvd@nist.gov
- NVD-CWE-Other
Evaluator
- Comment
- -
- Impact
- Per: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=125474331811594 XMM exceptions are incorrectly handled in the OpenBSD/i386 kernel, resulting in a kernel panic that can be triggered by a local user. This issue has been fixed in -current. Source code patches are available for OpenBSD 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6.
- Solution
- Per: http://marc.info/?l=openbsd-security-announce&m=125474331811594 XMM exceptions are incorrectly handled in the OpenBSD/i386 kernel, resulting in a kernel panic that can be triggered by a local user. This issue has been fixed in -current. Source code patches are available for OpenBSD 4.4, 4.5 and 4.6.
Configurations
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