CVE - CVE-2006-4178

CVE-ID
CVE-2006-4178	Learn more at National Vulnerability Database (NVD) • CVSS Severity Rating • Fix Information • Vulnerable Software Versions • SCAP Mappings • CPE Information
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.
References
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BID:20158 URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20158 BUGTRAQ:20060925 iDefense Security Advisory 09.23.06: FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Signedness Vulnerability URL:http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446946/100/0/threaded IDEFENSE:20060923 FreeBSD i386_set_ldt Integer Signedness Vulnerability URL:http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=415 SECTRACK:1016927 URL:http://securitytracker.com/id?1016927 SECUNIA:22064 URL:http://secunia.com/advisories/22064
Assigning CNA
MITRE Corporation
Date Record Created
20060816	Disclaimer: The record creation date may reflect when the CVE ID was allocated or reserved, and does not necessarily indicate when this vulnerability was discovered, shared with the affected vendor, publicly disclosed, or updated in CVE.
Phase (Legacy)
Assigned (20060816)
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Proposed (Legacy)
N/A
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