CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-5836

7.2 HIGH Published 2006-11-10 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-10
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

The fpathconf syscall function in bsd/kern/kern_descrip.c in the Darwin kernel (XNU) 8.8.1 in Apple Mac OS X allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file descriptor with an unrecognized file type.

Affected configurations

• opendarwin darwin kernel 8.8.1

References