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http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 CVE-2006-5836
Apple Mac OSX 10.x - FPathConf System Call Local Denial of Service
Record summary
CVE-2006-5836 has a selected CVSS score of 7.2; EIP currently links 1 catalogued exploit.
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.
Description source: CVE List
Exploitation context
Available material
- Catalogued exploits
- 1
Proofs of concept
1Catalogued exploits
ExploitDBApple Mac OSX 10.x - FPathConf System Call Local Denial of ServiceExploitDB exploitby ilja van sprundelNot analyzed1 file
References
Showing 12 of 13APPLE-SA-2007-03-13Vendor advisory
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html projects.info-pull.com
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-09-11-2006.html 22808Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/22808 24479Third-party advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 30216vdb entry
http://www.osvdb.org/30216 20982vdb entry
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20982 1017751vdb entry
http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751 TA07-072AThird-party advisory
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html ADV-2006-4448vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4448 ADV-2007-0930vdb entry
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 macosx-fpathconf-dos(30152)vdb entry
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30152