Vulnerabilities > CVE-2006-6292 - Denial Of Service vulnerability in Apple mac OS X 10.4.8
Attack vector
ADJACENT_NETWORK Attack complexity
MEDIUM Privileges required
NONE Confidentiality impact
NONE Integrity impact
NONE Availability impact
COMPLETE apple
nessus
Summary
Apple Airport Extreme firmware 0.1.27 in Mac OS X 10.4.8 on Mac mini, MacBook, and MacBook Pro with Core Duo hardware allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (out-of-bounds memory access and kernel panic) and have possibly other security-related impact via certain beacon frames.
Vulnerable Configurations
| Part | Description | Count |
|---|---|---|
| OS | 3 | |
| Hardware | 1 |
Nessus
| NASL family | MacOS X Local Security Checks |
| NASL id | MACOSX_AIRPORT_2007-001.NASL |
| description | The remote host is running a version of Mac OS X 10.4 that does not have Airport Update 2007-001 applied. This update fixes a flaw in the wireless drivers that may allow an attacker to crash a host by sending a malformed frame. |
| last seen | 2019-10-28 |
| modified | 2007-01-26 |
| plugin id | 24241 |
| published | 2007-01-26 |
| reporter | This script is Copyright (C) 2007-2018 Tenable Network Security, Inc. |
| source | https://www.tenable.com/plugins/nessus/24241 |
| title | Mac OS X Airport Update 2007-001 |
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305031
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Jan/msg00001.html
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/Security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00001.html
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-30-11-2006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23159
- http://securitytracker.com/id?1017328
- http://www.apple.com/support/downloads/airportextremeupdate2007001.html
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/583552
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21383
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4822
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30663