CVE-2009-2793

CVE-2009-2793 · MEDIUM Severity

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

The kernel in NetBSD, probably 5.0.1 and earlier, on x86 platforms does not properly handle a pre-commit failure of the iret instruction, which might allow local users to gain privileges via vectors related to a tempEIP pseudocode variable that is outside of the code-segment limits.

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