NetBSD kernel local vulnerabilities
Name: NetBSD kernel local vulnerabilities
Date: Dec 18, 2004
Author: Evgeny Demidov
Description:
There exists multiple vulnerabilities in NetBSD binary compatibility code.
They can be approximately divided into two parts:
1) signal number validation problems in xxx_sys_kill(),xxx_sys_sigaction() and
similar syscalls
These are limited to local DoS only.
By passing large signal numbers to certain syscalls in compat code local
attacker can crash the kernel.
2) buffer overflows
At least one of them can be exploited to gain full super-user privilegies.
Fix:
NetBSD has issued advisory -
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-010.txt.asc
History:
Oct 12, 2004 - initial vendor notification
Oct 20, 2004 - NetBSD team performed extensive audit of compat code!
Dec 18, 2004 - public release of this advisory