CVE-2006-5710

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 19.6% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-04 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

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.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.8
Opendarwin Darwin Kernel: 8.8.0

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

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