CVE-2006-3506 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-3506?

CVE-2006-3506 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 21 Aug 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Buffer overflow in the Xsan Filesystem driver on Mac OS X 10.4.7 and OS X Server 10.4.7 allows local users with Xsan write access, to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors related to "processing a path name."

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-3506?

It affects 3 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Apple Mac Os X Server, Apple Xsan.

How do I fix CVE-2006-3506?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-3506 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Upgrade to the fixed version. Memory-safe languages, compiler hardening and fuzzing prevent most new cases. More about Memory corruption.

Is CVE-2006-3506 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-3506 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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