CVE-2006-5836

CVE-2006-5836 · HIGH Severity

AV:L/AC:L/AU:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

The fpathconf syscall function in bsd/kern/kern_descrip.c in the Darwin kernel (XNU) 8.8.1 in Apple Mac OS X allows local users to cause a denial of service (kernel panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a file descriptor with an unrecognized file type.

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