CVE-2006-5710

N/A Unknown
Published: November 04, 2006 Modified: April 23, 2026
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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.

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References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

Patch Vendor Advisory Exploit Third Party Advisory
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/22679
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
Source: cve@mitre.org
US Government Resource
http://www.osvdb.org/30180
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862
Source: cve@mitre.org
Exploit
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
Source: cve@mitre.org
US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
Source: cve@mitre.org
Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965
Source: cve@mitre.org
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://secunia.com/advisories/22679
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
http://www.osvdb.org/30180
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Exploit
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
US Government Resource
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108
Vendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965
Source: af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108

26 reference(s) from NVD

Quick Stats

CVSS v3 Score
N/A / 10.0
EPSS (Exploit Probability)
33.6%
97th percentile
Exploitation Status
Not in CISA KEV

Weaknesses (CWE)

CWE-119

Affected Vendors

apple opendarwin

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