Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Nov 4, 2006· Updated Jun 16, 2026
CVE-2006-5710
CVE-2006-5710
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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Affected products
4cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*+ 1 more
- cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.8:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- (no CPE)range: = 10.4.8
- cpe:2.3:o:opendarwin:darwin_kernel:8.8.0:*:*:*:*:*:*:*
- Range: = 8.8.0
Patches
Vulnerability mechanics
References
13- projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.htmlnvdExploit
- secunia.com/advisories/22679nvdExploitVendor Advisory
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862nvdExploit
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313nvdVendor Advisory
- www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750nvdVendor Advisory
- www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336nvdUS Government Resource
- www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.htmlnvdUS Government Resource
- docs.info.apple.com/article.htmlnvd
- lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.htmlnvd
- secunia.com/advisories/23155nvd
- securitytracker.com/idnvd
- www.osvdb.org/30180nvd
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965nvd
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