CVE-2006-3508: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 0.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Heap-based buffer overflow in the AirPort wireless driver on Apple Mac OS X 10.4.7 allows physically proximate attackers to cause a denial of service (crash), gain privileges, and execute arbitrary code via a crafted frame that is not properly handled during scan cache updates.

Affected products

  • Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.7 only
  • Apple Mac OS X Server: version 10.4.7 only

Published 2006-09-21. Last modified 2026-06-16.