CVE-2006-4178 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.

Reference

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