CVE-2006-5710

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Summary

CVECVE-2006-5710
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2006-11-04 01:07:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionThe 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.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 7.5 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Problem Types: CWE-119 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Low
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Partial
Integrity
Partial
Availability
Partial

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Apple Mac Os X 10.4.8 All All All
Operating System Opendarwin Darwin Kernel 8.8.0 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
US-CERT Vulnerability Note VU#191336 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.kb.cert.org US Government Resource
Month of Kernel Bugs (MoKB): Apple Airport 802.11 Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 projects.info-pull.com Exploit
Apple Airport Driver Remote Code Execution Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com Exploit
APPLE-SA-2006-11-28 Security Update 2006-007 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 lists.apple.com
IBM X-Force Exchange af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
Webmail : Solution de messagerie professionnelle - OVHcloud- OVH af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.vupen.com Vendor Advisory
www.osvdb.org/30180 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.osvdb.org
Mac OS X Security Update Fixes Multiple Vulnerabilities - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com
Apple Airport Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability - Advisories - Secunia af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Exploit, Vendor Advisory
About the security content of Security Update 2006-007 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 docs.info.apple.com
US-CERT Technical Cyber Security Alert TA06-333A -- Apple Releases Security Update to Address Multiple Vulnerabilities af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.us-cert.gov US Government Resource
SecurityTracker.com Archives - Apple AirPort Probe Response Frame Memory Error Lets Remote Users Execute Arbitrary Code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 securitytracker.com
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