CVE-2006-6127

Severity

21%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

48%

Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.

Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.

CVSS 2.0 Base Score 2.1. CVSS Attack Vector: local. CVSS Attack Complexity: low. CVSS Vector: (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:P).

Overview

Type

Apple Mac OS X

First reported 18 years ago

2006-11-27 00:07:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8

10.4.8

Apple Mac OS X Server 10.4.8

10.4.8

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