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
Published Nov 4, 2006
7.5
HIGHCVSS 2.0
EPSS 19.60%
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 products
No data.
- 10.4.8
- 8.8.0
No data.
No Red Hat product state for this CVE.
No package ranges for this CVE.
Remediation
No remediation recorded yet.
Metrics
No CVSS v4.0 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.1 score for this CVE.
No CVSS v3.0 score for this CVE.
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
This CVE is not in the KEV list.
No CISA SSVC assessment for this CVE yet.
Estimated probability of exploitation in the wild in the next 30 days (FIRST EPSS). As of Oct 2, 2026.
Score over time
2022–2026- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Percentile over time
- EPSS v2
- EPSS v3
- EPSS v4
- EPSS v5
Table of values (15 key points)
Flat stretches are collapsed; showing up to 120 newest points.
| Date | Score | Percentile | Model |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 2, 2026 | 19.60% (0.19603) | 97.31th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Oct 1, 2026 | 18.52% (0.18518) | 97.17th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Jun 15, 2026 | 18.07% (0.18071) | 96.82th | v5 (v2026.06.15) |
| Oct 7, 2025 | 33.59% (0.33593) | 96.79th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 30, 2025 | 32.23% (0.32228) | 96.46th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 29, 2025 | 24.86% (0.24855) | 93.79th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Mar 17, 2025 | 32.23% (0.32228) | 96.45th | v4 (v2025.03.14) |
| Dec 17, 2024 | 37.47% (0.37466) | 97.21th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Sep 24, 2024 | 16.27% (0.16268) | 96.07th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Nov 22, 2023 | 12.18% (0.12178) | 94.82th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jul 31, 2023 | 8.98% (0.08983) | 93.76th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Jun 23, 2023 | 10.57% (0.10574) | 94.19th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 7, 2023 | 10.79% (0.10786) | 94.13th | v3 (v2023.03.01) |
| Mar 6, 2023 | 41.38% (0.41378) | 98.26th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
| Feb 4, 2022 | 41.38% (0.41378) | 97.53th | v2 (v2022.01.01) |
References (13)
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 x_refsource_CONFIRM
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLE
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html x_refsource_MISCExploit
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22679 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAExploitVendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151 vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACK
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336 third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNUS Government Resource
- http://www.osvdb.org/30180 vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDB
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862 vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDExploit
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTUS Government Resource
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750 vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENVendor Advisory
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965 vdb-entryx_refsource_XF
Change history (0)
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