Name: CVE-2016-6242: Undefined Security Weakness
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2017-03-07T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2016-6242, CWE-189, CVSS 5.5, EPSS 0.00429

OpenBSD 5.8 and 5.9 allows local users to cause a denial of service (assertion failure and kernel panic) via a large ident value in a kevent system call.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.0 Base Score: 5.5
CVSS 3.0 Vector: (CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:N/I:N/A:H)

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