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CVE-2006-4178

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.9 Published: 2006-09-26 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

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.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

NVD-CWE-Other

References