Buffer overflow in Apple Mac OS X
CVE-2006-5710
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.
Vulnerability class: Buffer Overflow
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.5 (High). Vector: AV:N/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: 0.185 (97.2th percentile), scored .
Moderate probability of exploitation in the next 30 days — watch for active exploitation reports. 97th percentile — 97.2% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.185 · newest: 0.185 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Apple Mac OS X — versions 10.4.8
- Opendarwin Darwin Kernel — versions 8.8.0
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- securitytracker.com/id (vdb-entry)
- projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html (Exploit)
- docs.info.apple.com/article.html
- www.osvdb.org/30180 (vdb-entry)
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313 (vdb-entry, Vendor Advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862 (Exploit, vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/23155 (third-party-advisory)
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336 (US Government Resource, third-party-advisory)
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html (vendor-advisory)