CVE-2006-4172

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Integer overflow vulnerability in the i386_set_ldt call in FreeBSD 5.5, and possibly earlier versions down to 5.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4178.

Integer overflow vulnerability in the i386_set_ldt call in FreeBSD 5.5, and possibly earlier versions down to 5.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4178.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 7.2. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C).

Overview

First reported 18 years ago

2006-09-26 02:07:00

Last updated 6 years ago

2018-10-17 21:33:00

Affected Software

FreeBSD 5.2

5.2

FreeBSD 5.2.1

5.2.1

FreeBSD 5.3

5.3

FreeBSD 5.4

5.4

FreeBSD

References

20060923 [RISE-2006002] FreeBSD 5.x kernel i386_set_ldt() integer overflow vulnerability

22064

1016926

1016928

20060923 FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Overflow Vulnerability

20060925 iDefense Security Advisory 09.23.06: FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Overflow Vulnerability

20158

freebsd-i386setldt-overflow(29132)

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