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CVE-2006-5710
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,…
High7.5EPSS 19.6%
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- mitre
Description
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.
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)
- 19.6% · top 2.6% of all CVEs (5 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
Affected products
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- affected n/a
References (13)
- ADV-2006-4750 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 1017151 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html (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
- 30180 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- ADV-2006-4313 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_VUPENx_transferred
- 20862 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 23155 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- VU#191336 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_CERT-VNx_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
- 22679 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
- airport-driver-code-execution(29965) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_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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