CVE-2006-6173

Severity

72%

Complexity

39%

Confidentiality

165%

Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.

Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.

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

2006-11-30 16:28:00

Last updated 7 years ago

2017-07-29 01:29:00

Affected Software

Apple Mac OS X

References

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

APPLE-SA-2007-03-13

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-28-11-2006.html

23120

Vendor Advisory

24479

1017306

21349

1017751

TA07-072A

US Government Resource

ADV-2006-4762

ADV-2007-0930

macos-sharedregion-privilege-escalation(30569)

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