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National Vulnerability Database

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NVD

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CVE-2006-5710 Detail

Current 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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Evaluator Solution

Failed exploit attempts will likely result in denial-of-service conditions.

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URL Source(s) Tag(s)
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 CVE, MITRE
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html CVE, MITRE
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://secunia.com/advisories/22679 CVE, MITRE Exploit  Vendor Advisory 
http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 CVE, MITRE
http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151 CVE, MITRE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336 CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.osvdb.org/30180 CVE, MITRE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862 CVE, MITRE Exploit 
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html CVE, MITRE US Government Resource 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 CVE, MITRE Vendor Advisory 
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965 CVE, MITRE

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID CWE Name Source
CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer cwe source acceptance level NIST  

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Change History

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Quick Info

CVE Dictionary Entry:
CVE-2006-5710
NVD Published Date:
11/03/2006
NVD Last Modified:
04/22/2026
Source:
MITRE