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NetBSD's swapctl() system call is reported susceptible to a local denial of service vulnerability. It manifests itself as an integer overflow condition in in the swapctl() system call. This issue may be exploited by local users to trigger a kernel panic, effectively denying service to legitimate users. This has been fixed in NetBSD-current, and the NetBSD-2-0 branch of CVS.

NetBSD's swapctl() system call is reported susceptible to a local denial of service vulnerability. It manifests itself as an integer overflow condition in in the swapctl() system call. This issue may be exploited by local users to trigger a kernel panic, effectively denying service to legitimate users. This has been fixed in NetBSD-current, and the NetBSD-2-0 branch of CVS.