CVE-2006-6292

Severity: medium (CVSS 5.7 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 1.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-12-05 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Apple Airport Extreme firmware 0.1.27 in Mac OS X 10.4.8 on Mac mini, MacBook, and MacBook Pro with Core Duo hardware allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and kernel panic) and have possibly other security-related impact via certain beacon frames.

Affected products

macOS: 10.4.8

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305031
http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00001.html
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Jan/msg00001.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-30-11-2006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23159
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017328
http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportextremeupdate2007001.html
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/583552
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21383
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4822
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30663
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305031

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