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CVE-2006-5679

MEDIUM CVSS: 4.6 Published: 2006-11-03 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

Integer overflow in the ffs_mountfs function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UFS filesystem that causes invalid or large size parameters to be provided to the kmem_alloc function. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.

Affected Platforms

Freebsd Freebsd

Weakness Type

CWE-189

References