PT-2006-6386 · Freebsd · Freebsd

Lmh · Published 2006-11-03 · Updated 2011-10-11 · CVE-2006-5679

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

4.6

Medium

Base vector

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

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions: FreeBSD version 6.1

Description: The issue is related to an integer overflow in the ffs mountfs function, which can be triggered by a crafted UFS filesystem. This overflow can cause a denial of service (panic) and potentially allow the execution of arbitrary code when invalid or large size parameters are provided to the kmem alloc function.

Recommendations: For FreeBSD version 6.1, consider restricting access to mounting filesystems to prevent potential exploitation, as only root users can mount a filesystem. At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-189

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-5679

Affected Products

Freebsd

References · 12

• http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 · Vendor Advisory
• http://vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-5679 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/22736 · Vendor Advisory
• http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 · Note
• http://kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136 · Note
• http://us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html · Note
• http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/20918 · Note
• http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html · Note
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1017751 · Note