CVE-2006-6127

N/A Unknown

Published: November 27, 2006 Modified: April 23, 2026

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.

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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=307041

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-24-11-2006.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://secunia.com/advisories/23114

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://secunia.com/advisories/27643

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.osvdb.org/30695

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21285

Source: cve@mitre.org

Exploit

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html

Source: cve@mitre.org

US Government Resource

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4715

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868

Source: cve@mitre.org

https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30544

Source: cve@mitre.org

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041