CVE-2006-5710
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 19.6%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-119
- EPSS score
- 19.6% (97th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-5695)
- Published
- November 4, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-5695 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- apple / mac os x
- opendarwin / darwin kernel
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html(Exploit)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22679(Exploit, Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23155
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336(US Government Resource)
- http://www.osvdb.org/30180
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862(Exploit)
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html(US Government Resource)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313(Vendor Advisory)
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750(Vendor Advisory)
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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