CVE-2006-5824 Information

Description

Integer overflow in the ffs_rdextattr function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and trigger a heap-based buffer overflow via a crafted UFS filesystem a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-5679. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.

Reference

http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-08-11-2006.html https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30144