Vulnerability in Freebsd

CVE-2006-4178

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.

EPSS: 0.008 (51.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

Affected products

  • Freebsd — versions 5.2, 5.2.1, 5.3
  • N/a — versions n/a

Public proof-of-concept exploits

References

Frequently asked questions

What is CVE-2006-4178?
CVE-2006-4178 is a vulnerability in Freebsd. Published 2006-09-26.
Is CVE-2006-4178 known to be exploited?
5 public proof-of-concept repositories are indexed. Not currently listed in the CISA KEV catalog.