CVE-2006-5836
23Vexday Risk Score
No sign of exploitation. It has a public proof of concept.
ssvc Attendepss 1.3%
from disclosure to weapon0 days
Published on NVDNov 10
1st PoCNov 9
exploitation probability
1.3%top 33% of all CVEs
observed exploitation
nono source reports it
1 public exploit(s)
The fpathconf syscall function in bsd/kern/kern_descrip.c in the Darwin kernel (XNU) 8.8.1 in Apple Mac OS X allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file descriptor with an unrecognized file type.
Affected products
n/a · n/apublic PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof
exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/28948⚠ Public resources, to assess the exposure of systems you control or are authorized to test. Test only with authorization.
References
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.htmlhttp://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-09-11-2006.htmlhttp://secunia.com/advisories/22808http://secunia.com/advisories/24479https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30152http://www.osvdb.org/30216http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20982http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.htmlhttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4448http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930