CVE-2006-4178

Severity

49%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

115%

Integer signedness error 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) via unspecified arguments that use negative signed integers to cause the bzero function to be called with a large length parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4172.

Integer signedness error 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) via unspecified arguments that use negative signed integers to cause the bzero function to be called with a large length parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4172.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 4.9. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/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

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