Vector: | Local |
Severity: | Low |
Patch: | Unpatched |
Impact: | Denial of Service (DoS) |
Software: | OpenBSD 5.3 |
An attacker can perform a denial of service attack.
The vulnerability exists within the "sys_execve()" function (sys/kern/kern_exec.c) when parsing executable headers with an unaligned address due to an error. An attacker can perform a denial of service (DoS) attack.
Links:
- http://www.openbsd.org/errata55.html
- http://www.ioactive.com/pdfs/IOActive_Advisory_OpenBSD_5_5_Local_Kernel_Panic.pdf