CVE-2006-5710 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, all

What is CVE-2006-5710?

CVE-2006-5710 is a high-severity vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 4 Nov 2006.

Official 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.

Weakness: CWE-119

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-5710?

It affects 2 products.

Products include Apple Mac Os X, Opendarwin Darwin Kernel.

How do I fix CVE-2006-5710?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-5710 yet. Limit exposure of the affected software until one is available.

Is CVE-2006-5710 being exploited?

It is not confirmed as exploited in the wild, but public exploit code for CVE-2006-5710 exists.

Public exploit code: 1 Exploit-DB entry.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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Also known as GHSA-q4h8-23f5-r5xv.