CVE-2006-5824 - Integer overflow in the ffs_rdextattr function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted UFS filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5679

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Integer overflow in the ffs_rdextattr function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted UFS filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5679

Published Nov 9, 2006

4.9

MEDIUM

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 0.37%

Description

Integer overflow in the ffs_rdextattr function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted UFS filesystem, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5679. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.

Affected products

Remediation

No remediation recorded yet.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (3)

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html
mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-08-11-2006.html
x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30144
vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Link	Providers	Tags
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html		mailing-listx_refsource_MLIST
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-08-11-2006.html		x_refsource_MISCVendor Advisory
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30144		vdb-entryx_refsource_XF

Change history (0)

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Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Nov 9, 2006

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Nov 8, 2006

Link CVE-2006-5824

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

Link CVE-2006-5824

Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

Links CVE-2006-5824