CVE Vulnerabilities

CVE-2006-5836

Published: Nov 10, 2006 | Modified: Jul 20, 2017
CVSS 3.x
N/A
Source:
NVD
CVSS 2.x
7.2 HIGH
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
RedHat/V2
RedHat/V3
Ubuntu

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.

Affected Software

Name Vendor Start Version End Version
Darwin_kernel Opendarwin 8.8.1 (including) 8.8.1 (including)

References