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.
Published: 2006-11-04
Score: 7.5 High
EPSS: 33.6% Moderate
KEV: No
Impact: n/a
Action: n/a
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Apple Mac Os X
Opendarwin Darwin Kernel
cve-icon MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published:

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:04:54.133Z

Reserved: 2006-11-03T00:00:00.000Z

Link: CVE-2006-5710

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Status : Modified

Published: 2006-11-04T01:07:00.000

Modified: 2026-04-23T00:35:47.467

Link: CVE-2006-5710

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