CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-5710
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-11-04
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Weaknesses
- CWE-119
Description
The Airport driver for certain Orinoco based Airport cards in Darwin kernel 8.8.0 in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an 802.11 probe response frame without any valid information element (IE) fields after the header, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
Affected configurations
• apple mac os x 10.4.8
• opendarwin darwin kernel 8.8.0
Related
Weakness · CWE (1)
- CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer weakness
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22679 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/30180 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862 Exploit
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 docs.info.apple.com
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html lists.apple.com
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html Exploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22679 Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 secunia.com
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151 securitytracker.com
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336 US Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/30180 www.osvdb.org
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862 Exploit
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html US Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313 Vendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 Vendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com