CVE-2006-6292 Memory corruption in n/a

What is CVE-2006-6292?

CVE-2006-6292 is a medium-severity memory corruption vulnerability in Apple Mac Os X, published on 5 Dec 2006. It can only be exploited from the same machine or local network, with no action from the victim.

Official description

Apple Airport Extreme firmware 0.1.27 in Mac OS X 10.4.8 on Mac mini, MacBook, and MacBook Pro with Core Duo hardware allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and kernel panic) and have possibly other security-related impact via certain beacon frames.

Which versions are affected by CVE-2006-6292?

It affects 1 product.

Products include Apple Mac Os X.

How do I fix CVE-2006-6292?

No fix has been published for CVE-2006-6292 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-2006-6292 being exploited?

There is no known exploitation of CVE-2006-6292 in the wild and no public exploit code.

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Sources

• CVE record
• NVD
• OSV
• GitHub advisory
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