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CVE Reference: CVE-2006-4178
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Original Page at CVE MITRE:
CVE-2006-4178

Description:
Integer signedness error in the i386_set_ldt call in FreeBSD 5.5, and possibly earlier versions down to 5.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified arguments that use negative signed integers to cause the bzero function to be called with a large length parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4172.

CVE Status:
Candidate

References:

ST
  1016927

SAID
  Secunia Advisory: SA22064

IDEFENSE
  http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=415

BUGTRAQ
  http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/446946/100/0/threaded

BID
  20158


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