Vulnerability CVE-2006-5710
Published: 2006-11-03   Modified: 2012-02-12

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.

Type:

CWE-119

 (Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
7.5/10
6.4/10
10/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Low
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Partial
Partial
Partial
Affected software
Opendarwin -> Darwin kernel 
Apple -> Mac os x 

 References:
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29965
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862
http://www.osvdb.org/30180
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
http://secunia.com/advisories/22679
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
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