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CVE-2006-4406
Buffer overflow in PPP on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.x up to 10.4.8 and 10.3.x up to 10.3.9, when PPPoE is enabled, allows remote attackers to…
High7.5EPSS 8.1%
- Published
- Updated
- Reserved
- Assigned by
- mitre
Description
Buffer overflow in PPP on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.x up to 10.4.8 and 10.3.x up to 10.3.9, when PPPoE is enabled, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.
Timeline
ID reserved
By mitre
- 3 months later
· 3 months later
Published
- 18 years later
· 18 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High7.5 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 8.1% · top 5.1% of all CVEs (7 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 7.5.
Weakness
- n/a
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References (11)
- ADV-2006-4750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- VU#870960 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_transferred
- 1017305 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://labs.musecurity.com/advisories/MU-200611-01.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829 (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_CONFIRMx_transferred
- 21335 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 23155 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- macos-ppp-bo(30627) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- 30732 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- APPLE-SA-2006-11-28 (opens in a new tab)vendor-advisoryx_refsource_APPLEx_transferred
- TA06-333A (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERTx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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