CVE-2006-4178

Integer signedness error in the i386_set_ldt call in FreeBSD 5.5, and possibly earlier versions down to 5.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified arguments that use negative signed integers to cause the bzero function to be called with a large length parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4172.

CVSS v2.0

4.9 MEDIUMAV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

EPSS

0.79% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days, 54th percentile

Published

2006-09-26

Updated

2024-08-07

ExploitDB entries (1)

• https://www.exploit-db.com/exploits/28648

References

• CVE Record
• NVD entry

Related

• CVE-2006-4166
• CVE-2006-4182
• CVE-2006-4164
• CVE-2006-4190
• CVE-2006-4163
• CVE-2006-4191