CVE-2006-4178

Summary

CVECVE-2006-4178
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-09-26 02:07:00 UTC
Updated2018-10-17 21:33:00 UTC
DescriptionInteger 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.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: NVD-CWE-Other

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.2.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.3 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.2 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.2.1 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.3 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd 5.4 All All All
Operating System Freebsd Freebsd All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
FreeBSD I386_Set_LDT() Multiple Local Denial of Service Vulnerabilities BID www.securityfocus.com
Public Advisory: 09.23.06 // iDefense Labs IDEFENSE www.idefense.com Vendor Advisory
SecurityFocus BUGTRAQ www.securityfocus.com
FreeBSD Kernel i386_set_ldt() Signed nteger Error Lets Local Users Deny Service - SecurityTracker SECTRACK securitytracker.com
FreeBSD "i386_set_ldt()" Integer Overflow / Signedness Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia SECUNIA secunia.com
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

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