CVE-2006-6127

Severity: low (CVSS 2.1 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 0.5% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-11-27 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.8
Apple Mac Os X Server: 10.4.8

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-24-11-2006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23114
http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
http://www.osvdb.org/30695
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21285
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4715
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30544

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