CVE-2006-6173 (GCVE-0-2006-6173)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2006-11-30 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-07 20:19
VLAI?
Summary
Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.
Severity ?
No CVSS data available.
CWE
- n/a
Assigner
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