CVE-2006-5679

Published Nov 3, 2006 CVSS 2.0 · 4.6 Medium EPSS 1.0% KEV · Not listed
Description
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.

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Source ID Title
EUVD EUVD EUVD-2006-5664 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.
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Status
PUBLISHED
Assigner
mitre
Published
Updated
Aug 7, 2024, 7:55 PM
Reserved
Nov 3, 2006, 12:00 AM
Status
Modified
Published
Nov 3, 2006, 10:07 PM
Modified
Jun 16, 2026, 10:31 PM