CVE-2006-6656
N/A
Published: December 20, 2006 at 02:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:33 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorNetBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.3%
Description
Unspecified vulnerability in ptrace in NetBSD-current before 20061027, NetBSD 3.0 and 3.0.1 before 20061027, and NetBSD 2.x before 20061119 allows local users to read kernel memory and obtain sensitive information via certain manipulations of a PT_LWPINFO request, which leads to a memory leak and information leak.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (2)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_NETBSD
Source: [email protected]
ftp://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2006-025.txt.ascVDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACKPatchVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017292Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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