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OpenBSD sempahores Denial of Service Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA21642
Release Date: 2006-08-28
Last Update: 2006-08-29
Popularity: 9,017 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 an error within the kernel when more than the default number of semaphores have been allocated.

Successful exploitation causes a kernel panic.

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