CVE-2006-4178

MediumCVSS 4.9/10Last modified Jun 16, 2026

Description

Integer signedness error in the i386_set_ldt call in FreeBSD 5.5, and possibly earlier versions down to 5.2, allows local users to cause a denial of service (crash) via unspecified arguments that use negative signed integers to cause the bzero function to be called with a large length parameter, a different vulnerability than CVE-2006-4172.

Metrics

CVSS 2.0 4.9/10AV:L/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Affected software

No affected versions have been published.

Timeline

Published
Sep 26, 2006
Last modified
Jun 16, 2026
NVD status
Modified

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CVE-2006-4178: Medium severity, CVSS 4.9 | Vulnix