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CVE-2006-4178
Published: Sep 26, 2006
Modified: Aug 7, 2024
PUBLISHED
Description
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.
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References
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vdb-entry
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third-party-advisory
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20158
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20060923 FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Signedness Vulnerability
third-party-advisory
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20060925 iDefense Security Advisory 09.23.06: FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Signedness Vulnerability
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