The Airport driver for certain Orinoco based Airport cards in Darwin kernel 8.8.0 in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an 802.11 probe response frame without any valid information element (IE) fields after the header, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.
CVE-2006-5710
- No confirmed exploitation signals yet
No vendor fix yet — apply a workaround or compensating control (WAF / firewall / segmentation) and watch for a patch.
- CVSS v3
- —
- EG Score
- 0.0(none)
- EPSS
- 96.8%
- KEV
- Not listed
Published
November 4, 2006
Last Modified
April 23, 2026
References (26)
- cve@mitrehttp://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- cve@mitrehttp://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
- cve@mitrehttp://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-01-11-2006.html
- cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/22679
- cve@mitrehttp://secunia.com/advisories/23155
- cve@mitrehttp://securitytracker.com/id?1017151
- cve@mitrehttp://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/191336
- cve@mitrehttp://www.osvdb.org/30180
- cve@mitrehttp://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20862
- cve@mitrehttp://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA06-333A.html
- cve@mitrehttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4313
- cve@mitrehttp://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4750
- cve@mitrehttps://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29965
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=304829
- af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2006/Nov/msg00001.html
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Publicly available exploits
(1 reference)Working exploit code is in the public domain (1 Exploit-DB entry). Defenders should treat patch urgency accordingly — public PoCs typically lead to mass-exploitation within 24-72 hours.
- Exploit-DBEDB-2700✓ verifiedFirst seen Nov 1, 2006
Apple Airport - 802.11 Probe Response Kernel Memory Corruption (PoC) (Metasploit)
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