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
EPSS: 0.181 (96.9th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.
Affected products
- Apple Mac_os_x — versions 10.4.8
- Opendarwin Darwin_kernel — versions 8.8.0
- N/a — versions n/a
Weakness classification (CWE)
References
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_SECTRACK)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, x_refsource_MISC)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_CONFIRM)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_OSVDB, vdb-entry)
- cve@mitre.org (vdb-entry, x_refsource_VUPEN, Vendor Advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (Exploit, vdb-entry, x_refsource_BID)
- cve@mitre.org (x_refsource_SECUNIA, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (US Government Resource, x_refsource_CERT-VN, third-party-advisory)
- cve@mitre.org (vendor-advisory, x_refsource_APPLE)