CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-6173

7.2 HIGH Published 2006-11-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2006-11-30
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

Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.

Affected configurations

• apple mac os x (<= 10.4.6)

References