Vulnerability in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2006-4866
Buffer overflow in kextload in Apple OS X, as used by TDIXSupport in Roxio Toast Titanium and possibly other products, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long extension argument.
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 4.6 (Medium). Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.010 (60.9th percentile), scored .
Very low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days; routine patching cadence is appropriate. 61st percentile — 60.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.010 · newest: 0.010 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.0, 10.0.1, 10.0.2
- Apple Mac OS X Server — versions 10.0, 10.1, 10.1.1
References
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20034 (vdb-entry)
- www.netragard.com/pdfs/research/apple-kext-tools-20060822.txt (Vendor Advisory)
- lists.grok.org.uk/pipermail/full-disclosure/2006-September/049452.html (mailing-list)