CVE-2006-5710 EXPLOIT
7.5
HIGH · CVSS 2.0 · EPSS 18.5% (pctl 97)
Patch early
A public exploit exists.
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.
Scoring
| CVSS | 7.5 (HIGH, v2.0) |
|---|---|
| Vector | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
| EPSS | 18.52% — more likely to be exploited than 97% of all CVEs |
| Weakness | CWE-119 |
| On CISA KEV | no |
| Public exploit | yes |
| Published | 2006-11-04 |
| Last modified | 2026-06-16 |
Affected (2)
| Vendor | Product |
|---|---|
| apple | mac os x |
| opendarwin | darwin kernel |
Public exploits
| Source | Title | Date |
|---|---|---|
| exploit-db | Apple Airport - 802.11 Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption (PoC) (Metasploit) | 2006-11-01 |
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22679
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
- http://www.osvdb.org/30180
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22679
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
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