CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-4178

4.9 MEDIUM Published 2006-09-26 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-09-26
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
4.9 MEDIUM — AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

Integer signedness error in the i386_set_ldt call in FreeBSD 5.5, and possibly earlier versions down to 5.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified arguments that use negative signed integers to cause the bzero function to be called with a large length parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4172.

Affected configurations

• freebsd freebsd (<= 5.5) • freebsd freebsd 5.2 • freebsd freebsd 5.2.1 • freebsd freebsd 5.3 • freebsd freebsd 5.4

References