CVE-2006-5710

Published: Nov 4, 2006Modified: Apr 23, 2026

7.5

Vector

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

Exploitability: 10.0 / Impact: 6.4

Source: NVD

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 (2)

Products: Apple: Mac Os X · Opendarwin: Darwin Kernel

1 product

1 product

Configuration A

2 vulnerable

Vulnerable Software	Affected Versions
Apple Mac Os X	Version 10.4.8
Opendarwin Darwin Kernel	Version 8.8.0

Related CWEs

Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it reads from or writes to a memory location outside the buffer's intended boundary. This may result in read or write operations on unexpected memory locations that could be linked to other variables, data structures, or internal program data.

References (26)

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://secunia.com/advisories/22679

Source: cve@mitre.org

ExploitVendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/23155

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.osvdb.org/30180

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750

Source: cve@mitre.org

Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Exploit

http://secunia.com/advisories/22679

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

ExploitVendor Advisory

http://secunia.com/advisories/23155

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

US Government Resource

http://www.osvdb.org/30180

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Exploit

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

US Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

Vendor Advisory

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965

Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

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