Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 3, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-5679
CVE-2006-5679
Description
Integer overflow in the ffs_mountfs function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UFS filesystem that causes invalid or large size parameters to be provided to the kmem_alloc function. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.
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References
11- secunia.com/advisories/22736nvdVendor Advisory
- secunia.com/advisories/24479nvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930nvdVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136nvdUS Government Resource
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- docs.info.apple.com/article.htmlnvd
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.htmlnvd
- lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.htmlnvd
- projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.htmlnvd
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20918nvd
- www.securitytracker.com/idnvd
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