CVE-2006-5710

Public exploit code

Working exploit or proof of concept code has been published for this vulnerability. Treat unpatched systems as at risk.

• Apple Airport - 802.11 Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption (PoC) (Metasploit)2006-11-01 · dos · hardware · Verified

Impact

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 products

Weakness classification

References

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