CVE-2006-4178
N/A
Published: September 26, 2006 at 01:43 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:28 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendorFreeBSD
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 0.8%
Description
Integer 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.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (5)
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_IDEFENSEVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=415Mailing Listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
Source: [email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446946/100/0/threadedQuick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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