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OpenBSD Malformed Binary Execution Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA10147
Release Date: 2003-11-05
Popularity: 7,253 views

Critical:
Not critical
Impact: DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:OpenBSD 3.x

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Description:
A vulnerability has been reported in OpenBSD, which can be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

The vulnerability is caused due to errors in "ibcs2_exec.c" and "exec_elf.c". This can be exploited to cause a kernel panic by executing a specially crafted binary with an invalid header.

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