CVE-2006-5710: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 19.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Airport driver for certain Orinoco based Airport cards in Darwin kernel 8.8.0 in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via an 802.11 probe response frame without any valid information element (IE) fields after the header, which triggers a heap-based buffer overflow.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: version 10.4.8 only
• Opendarwin Darwin Kernel: version 8.8.0 only

Published 2006-11-04. Last modified 2026-06-16.