CVE-2006-5679 - Soft hearted Piles

Description

Integer overflow in the ffs_mountfs function in FreeBSD 6.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (panic) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a crafted UFS filesystem that causes invalid or large size parameters to be provided to the kmem_alloc function. NOTE: a third party states that this issue does not cross privilege boundaries in FreeBSD because only root may mount a filesystem.

Reference

http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20918 http://secunia.com/advisories/22736 http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/552136 http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214 http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751 http://secunia.com/advisories/24479 http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930