>> Apple Airport Probe Response Remote Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability
Title : Apple Airport Probe Response Remote Kernel Memory Corruption Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4313 CVE ID : CVE-2006-5710
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-11-02
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in Apple Mac OS X, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to memory corruption errors in the Apple Airport driver (Orinoco-based Airport cards) when handling malformed frames, which could be exploited by attackers to execute arbitrary commands on a system with a vulnerable driver running in active scanning mode.
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