Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9

Denial of Service Vulnerability in OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9

CVE-2016-6243 · MEDIUM Severity

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

thrsleep in kern/kern_synch.c in OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) via a crafted value in the tsp parameter of the __thrsleep system call.

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