CVE-2006-4172 is an integer overflow vulnerability in the i386_set_ldt call within FreeBSD 5.5 and potentially earlier versions down to 5.2. This flaw allows a local attacker to trigger a denial of service (system crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code. With a CVSS score of 7.2, it is considered highly severe, requiring local access with low attack complexity, and posing a complete threat to confidentiality, integrity, and availability. There is no evidence of active exploitation, public exploit code (Metasploit, Nuclei, ExploitDB), or significant community discussion or media coverage surrounding this vulnerability.
| Vendor | Product | Version(s) | CPE |
|---|---|---|---|
<= 5.5CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:*:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.2CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.2:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.2.1CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.2.1:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.3CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.3:*:*:*:*:*:*:* | ||
5.4CPE matchmatch criteria | cpe:2.3:o:freebsd:freebsd:5.4:*:*:*:*:*:*:* |
CVSS version used by this source: 2.0
AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C
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The average CVE in this peer group has 0.1 InfoSec Media, 0.0 Vendor Blog, and 0.0 Security Researcher mentions.
Remediation records are not available for this CVE.