CVE-2006-5836 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5836
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Description: The fpathconf syscall function in bsd/kern/kern_descrip.c in the Darwin kernel (XNU) 8.8.1 in Apple Mac OS X allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file descriptor with an unrecognized file type.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30152 ST 1017751 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA22808 Secunia Advisory: SA24479 OSVDB 30216 MISC http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-09-11-2006.html CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html BID 20982 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

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