CVE-2006-6173
N/A
Published: November 30, 2006 at 04:00 PM UTC
Updated: June 16, 2026 at 10:32 PM UTC
1 product affected across 1 vendormacOS
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Severity
N/A
Exploit prediction
EPSS 1%
Description
Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.
Remediation
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Patch and advisory references
References (12)
Vendor Advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
Source: [email protected]
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.htmlThird Party Advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAVendor Advisory
Source: [email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/23120Quick Info
StatusMODIFIED
CWE
NVD-CWE-Other
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