CVE-2006-5710 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-5710
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Description: The Airport driver for certain Orinoco based Airport cards in Darwin kernel 8.8.0 in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an 802.11 probe response frame without any valid information element (IE) fields after the header, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/29965 ST 1017151 SAID Secunia Advisory: SA22679 Secunia Advisory: SA23155 OSVDB 30180 MISC http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html CONFIRM http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 CERT-VN 191336 CERT http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html BID 20862 APPLE http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html

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