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high 7.5

CVE-2006-5710 in the critical feed json

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, al…

published 2006-11-04 20 y ago modified 2026-06-16 4 mo ago also EUVD-2006-5695

cvss
7.5
version 2.0, NVD
cisa kev
Not listed
not in CISA's catalog
epss
19.6%
EPSS 19.6% chance of exploitation in 30 days, percentile 97%
public exploits
1
Exploit-DB

Summary

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.

Timeline

  1. First public exploit (EDB-2700)
  2. Published

Exploit prediction

19.60% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, higher than 97% of all scored CVEs (FIRST EPSS, 2026-11-08).

Exploits and checks

  • EDB-2700 Apple Airport - 802.11 Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption (PoC) (Metasploit) dos, 2006-11-01
  • projects.info-pull.com http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • securityfocus.com http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified
  • secunia.com http://secunia.com/advisories/22679 referenced PoC, tagged "exploit" by a source, unverified

CVSS scores

assigned by version score vector
NVD 2.0 7.5 AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P

Classification

Weakness
  • CWE-119 Improper Restriction of Operations within the Bounds of a Memory Buffer

References

Sources

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