CVE-2006-6127 (GCVE-0-2006-6127)
Vulnerability from cvelistv5
Published
2006-11-27 00:00
Modified
2024-08-07 20:19
Severity ?
CWE
  • n/a
Summary
Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.
References
cve@mitre.org http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
cve@mitre.org http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
cve@mitre.org http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-24-11-2006.html Exploit
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/23114
cve@mitre.org http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
cve@mitre.org http://www.osvdb.org/30695
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21285 Exploit
cve@mitre.org http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
cve@mitre.org http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html US Government Resource
cve@mitre.org http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4715
cve@mitre.org http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868
cve@mitre.org https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30544
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-24-11-2006.html Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/23114
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.osvdb.org/30695
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21285 Exploit
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html US Government Resource
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4715
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868
af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30544
Impacted products
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