CVE-2006-6173

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 30

1st PoCNov 29

exploitation probability

1.3%top 33% of all CVEs

observed exploitation

nono source reports it

1 public exploit(s)

Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.

Affected products

n/a · n/a

public PoCs found — 1✓ VexDay Proof

exploitdb✓ VexDay Proofwww.exploit-db.com/exploits/29201

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References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-28-11-2006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23120 http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 http://securitytracker.com/id?1017306 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30569 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21349 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4762 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930