CVE-2006-6173 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-6173
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Description: Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/30569 ST 1017751 1017306 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA23120 Secunia Advisory: SA24479 MISC http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-28-11-2006.html CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html BID 21349 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

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