CVE-2006-5710

N/A
Published: November 4, 2006 at 01:00 AM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:31 PM UTC
2 products affected across 2 vendorsmacOSDarwin Kernel

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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 20%

Description

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.

Affected

Our own answer: ranges merged, affected separated from platform-only, with confidence and review flags.

Remediation

No guide yet

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References (13)

Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAExploitVendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22679
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
VDB Entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
Third Party Advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
VDB Entryx_refsource_OSVDB
http://www.osvdb.org/30180

CVSS

Confidentiality
PARTIAL
Integrity
PARTIAL
Availability
PARTIAL
Vector?

Quick Info

StatusMODIFIED
CWE
CWE-119

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