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.

Score

CVSS 2.0 4.9 Medium

Status

Modified - cve@mitre.org

Published

2006-09-26

Last modified

2024-08-07

Affected products

• Freebsd (Freebsd)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/22064
• http://securitytracker.com/id?1016927
• http://www.idefense.com/intelligence/vulnerabilities/display.php?id=415
• http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/446946/100/0/threaded
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20158