CVE-2006-6173: Apple Mac OS X

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in the shared_region_make_private_np function in vm/vm_unix.c in Mac OS X 10.4.6 and earlier allows local users to execute arbitrary code via (1) a small range count, which causes insufficient memory allocation, or (2) a large number of ranges in the shared_region_make_private_np_args parameter.

Affected products

• Apple Mac OS X: up to and including 10.4.6

Published 2006-11-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.