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Apple Airport Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability

Secunia Advisory:	SA22679
Release Date:	2006-11-02
Last Update:	2006-11-29

Critical:	Moderately critical
Impact:	DoS System access
Where:	From remote
Solution Status:	Vendor Patch

OS:	Apple Macintosh OS X


CVE reference:	CVE-2006-5710 (Secunia mirror)

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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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