Vulnerability in Opendarwin Darwin Kernel

CVE-2006-5836

The fpathconf syscall function in bsd/kern/kern_descrip.c in the Darwin kernel (XNU) 8.8.1 in Apple Mac OS X allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file descriptor with an unrecognized file type.

EPSS: 0.013 (66.6th percentile) — read the EPSS interpretation.

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