Name: CVE-2006-5710: Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer
Creator: Rapid7
Published: 2006-11-04T00:00:00.000Z
License: https://www.rapid7.com/legal/website-terms-of-use/
Keywords: CVE, CVE-2006-5710, CWE-119, CVSS 9.8, EPSS 0.33593

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.

CVSS Details

CVSS 3.1 Base Score: 9.8

Covered by Rapid7

Product	Vendor Advisory	Solution File	Added	Published
Apple Osx Airport	—	Apply OS X security update 2006-007	Dec 16, 2011	Nov 3, 2006

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CVSS Details

Covered by Rapid7

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