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Apple Airport Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability
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Secunia Advisory:
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SA22679
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Release Date:
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2006-11-02
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Last Update:
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2006-11-29
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Popularity:
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10,163 views
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Critical:
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Moderately critical
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Impact:
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DoS
System access
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Where:
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From remote
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Solution Status:
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Vendor Patch
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| OS: | Apple Macintosh OS X
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| CVE reference: | CVE-2006-5710
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Description:
H.D. Moore has reported a vulnerability in the Apple Airport driver, which potentially can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.
The vulnerability is caused due to an error in the Airport driver provided with Orinoco-based Airport cards when handling probe response frames. This can be exploited to overwrite kernel memory and potentially execute arbitrary code when the driver is running in active scanning mode.
The vulnerability is reported in the driver on a PowerBook running version 10.4.8. Other versions may also be affected.
Solution:
Apply Security Update 2006-007.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
Provided and/or discovered by:
H D Moore
Changelog:
2006-11-08: Added CVE reference.
2006-11-29: Updated "Solution" section.
Original Advisory:
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
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