CVE-2006-6127 Information

Description

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.

Reference

http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-24-11-2006.html http://secunia.com/advisories/23114 http://secunia.com/advisories/27643 http://www.osvdb.org/30695 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21285 http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444 http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4715 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868 https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30544