CVE-2006-6013
lowpriority · track · 8EPSS 0.004 · 36 %ileEUUSEPSS · scored 2026-10-27
Integer signedness error in the fw_ioctl (FW_IOCTL) function in the FireWire (IEEE-1394) drivers (dev/firewire/fwdev.c) in various BSD kernels, including DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD 5.5, MidnightBSD 0.1-CURRENT before 20061115, NetBSD-current before 20061116, NetBSD-4 before 20061203, and TrustedBSD, allows local users to read arbitrary memory contents via certain negative values of crom_buf->len in an FW_GCROM command. NOTE: this issue has been labeled as an integer overflow, but it is more like an integer signedness error.
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affected products (6)
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references (38)
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- http://archives.neohapsis.com/archives/fulldisclosure/2006-11/0261.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/ieee1394/fwdev.cenisa_euvd
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2006/11/16/0001.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://mail-index.netbsd.org/tech-security/2006/12/14/0002.htmlenisa_euvd
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22917enisa_euvd
- http://security.freebsd.org/advisories/FreeBSD-SA-06:25.kmem.ascenisa_euvd
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017344enisa_euvd
- http://www.dragonflybsd.org/cvsweb/src/sys/bus/firewire/fwdev.cenisa_euvd
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