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CVE-2006-5710

HIGH CVSS: 7.5 Published: 2006-11-04 Modified: 2026-06-16

Description

The Airport driver for certain Orinoco based Airport cards in Darwin kernel 8.8.0 in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an 802.11 probe response frame without any valid information element (IE) fields after the header, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected Platforms

Opendarwin Darwin KernelApple Mac Os X

Weakness Type

CWE-119

References