CVE-2006-5836 describes a local denial-of-service vulnerability in the fpathconf syscall function within the Darwin kernel (XNU) 8.8.1 in Apple Mac OS X, affecting opendarwin and darwin_kernel products. This flaw allows a local user to trigger a kernel panic and potentially execute arbitrary code by providing a file descriptor with an unrecognized file type. With a CVSS score of 7.2, this vulnerability has a high severity, indicating a low attack complexity (AC:L) and requiring local access (AV:L), with potential for complete confidentiality, integrity, and availability impact (C:C/I:C/A:C). While not listed in CISA's KEV catalog and having no active exploitation intelligence, an exploit (EDB-28948) is publicly available on ExploitDB, though there is no community discussion or media coverage.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
8.8.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:opendarwin:darwin_kernel:8.8.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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