National Cyber-Alert System

Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-5679

Overview

Integer overflow in the ffs_mountfs function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UFS filesystem that causes invalid or large size parameters to be provided to the kmem_alloc function. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.

Impact

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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#552136

Name: VU#552136

Hyperlink:http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136

US-CERT Technical Alert: TA07-072A

Name: TA07-072A

Hyperlink:http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html

External Source: BID

Name: 20918

Hyperlink:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20918

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 22736

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/22736

External Source: MISC

Name: http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html

Hyperlink:http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html

External Source: MLIST

Name: [freebsd-security] 20070114 MOAB advisories

Hyperlink:http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html

External Source: SECTRACK

Name: 1017751

Hyperlink:http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751

External Source: VUPEN

Name: ADV-2007-0930

Hyperlink:http://www.frsirt.com/english/advisories/2007/0930

External Source: SECUNIA

Name: 24479

Hyperlink:http://secunia.com/advisories/24479

External Source: APPLE

Name: APPLE-SA-2007-03-13

Hyperlink:http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html

External Source: CONFIRM

Name: http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214

Hyperlink:http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214