Vulnerability Details : CVE-2006-5710
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.
Vulnerability category: OverflowExecute code
Exploit prediction scoring system (EPSS) score for CVE-2006-5710
Probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days: 8.98%
Percentile, the proportion of vulnerabilities that are scored at or less: ~ 94 % EPSS Score History EPSS FAQ
CVSS scores for CVE-2006-5710
| Base Score | Base Severity | CVSS Vector | Exploitability Score | Impact Score | Source |
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7.5
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HIGH | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
10.0
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6.4
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[email protected] |
CWE ids for CVE-2006-5710
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The product performs operations on a memory buffer, but it can read from or write to a memory location that is outside of the intended boundary of the buffer.Assigned by: [email protected] (Primary)
References for CVE-2006-5710
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http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
US Government Resource
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
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http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
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https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
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http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
US Government Resource
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http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862
Exploit
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
Vendor Advisory
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http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313
Vendor Advisory
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http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
Exploit
Products affected by CVE-2006-5710
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- cpe:2.3:o:opendarwin:darwin_kernel:8.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*