CVE-2006-5679
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 4.6 (v2.0)
- Severity
- MEDIUM
- CVSS vector
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 1.0% (64th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5664)
- Published
- November 3, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5664 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- freebsd / freebsd
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22736(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24479(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136(US Government Resource)
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20918
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930(Vendor Advisory)
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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