Denial of Service Vulnerability in NetBSD 1.3.3 and Earlier Versions via Unusual Symbolic Link Creation

Denial of Service Vulnerability in NetBSD 1.3.3 and Earlier Versions via Unusual Symbolic Link Creation

CVE-1999-0446 · LOW Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:N/I:N/A:P

Local users can perform a denial of service in NetBSD 1.3.3 and earlier versions by creating an unusual symbolic link with the ln command, triggering a bug in VFS.

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