CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-3508

7.2 HIGH Published 2006-09-21 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗

Status: Modified
Published: 2006-09-21
Last modified: 2026-06-16
Assigner: [email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected]): 7.2 HIGH — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Description

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AirPort wireless driver on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.7 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), gain privileges, and execute arbitrary code via a crafted frame that is not properly handled during scan cache updates.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x 10.4.7 • apple mac os x server 10.4.7

References

http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2006/Sep/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/22068 secunia.com
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016903 securitytracker.com
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/589540 US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20144 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3737 www.vupen.com
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2006/Sep/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
http://secunia.com/advisories/22068 secunia.com
http://securitytracker.com/id?1016903 securitytracker.com
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/589540 US Government Resource
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20144 www.securityfocus.com
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/3737 www.vupen.com