CVE-2006-5679

high

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.

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930

http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html

http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751

http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20918

http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136

http://secunia.com/advisories/24479

http://secunia.com/advisories/22736

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html

http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

Details

Source: Mitre, NVD

Published: 2006-11-03

Updated: 2011-10-11

Risk Information

CVSS v2

Base Score: 4.6

Vector: CVSS2#AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Severity: Medium

CVSS v3

Base Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS:3.0/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H

Severity: High