VULNERABILITY INTELLIGENCE
CVE-2006-5710
CVSS score7.5 HIGH
EPSS probability19.60%
CISA KEVNot currently listed
Published2006-11-04
Last modified2026-06-16
CVSS vectorAV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
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.
Weakness classification
- CWE-119: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Primary references
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit, Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — US Government Resource
- cve@mitre.org
- cve@mitre.org — Exploit
- cve@mitre.org — US Government Resource
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory
- cve@mitre.org — Vendor Advisory