CVE-2006-5679
Status: ModifiedMedium (4.6)—
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.
CVSS
- Version: 2.0
- Vector: AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
- Base score: 4.6
Exploitation probability (EPSS)
- Probability of exploitation in the next 30 days: 1.02%
- Percentile among all scored CVEs: 62
- Score date: 10/7/2026
EPSS (Exploit Prediction Scoring System, FIRST) estimates how likely a vulnerability is to be exploited in the wild within 30 days. It complements CVSS (impact) and CISA KEV (confirmed exploitation).
Affected technologies (1)
CWEs
- CWE-189
References
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22736
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20918
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
- http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214
- http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html
- http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html
- http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html
- http://secunia.com/advisories/22736
- http://secunia.com/advisories/24479
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20918
- http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751
- http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930
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