PT-2006-5001 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Published 2006-09-26 · Updated 2018-10-17 · CVE-2006-4178

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.9

Medium

Base vector

AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions FreeBSD versions 5.2 through 5.5

Description An integer signedness error in the i386 set ldt call allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified arguments that use negative signed integers to cause the bzero function to be called with a large length parameter.

Recommendations For FreeBSD versions 5.2 through 5.5, update to a version that includes a fix for this issue to prevent local users from causing a denial of service.

Exploit

Fix

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-4178

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 7

• 🔥 https://exploit-db.com/exploits/28648 · Exploit
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-4178 · Security Note
• http://idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=415 · Vendor Advisory
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22064 · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016927 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/446946/100/0/threaded · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/20158 · Note