CVE-2006-6013 is an integer signedness error in the FireWire (IEEE-1394) drivers of several BSD kernels, including DragonFlyBSD, FreeBSD, MidnightBSD, NetBSD, and TrustedBSD. This vulnerability allows a local attacker to read arbitrary memory contents by manipulating the crom_buf->len parameter with negative values during an FW_GCROM command. With a CVSS score of 2.1 (AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N), it is considered low severity, requiring local access and resulting only in partial confidentiality impact. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this decade-old vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:dragonflybsd:dragonflybsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.5:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
0.1-currentCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:midnightbsd:midnightbsd:0.1-current:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
2.0.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:netbsd:netbsd:2.0.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
All Versions ImpactedCPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:trustedbsd:trustedbsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N
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