{"cve":"CVE-2006-5679","nvd":{"published":"2006-11-03T22:07:00.000","modified":"2026-06-16T22:31:39.803","status":"Modified","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.","cvss_v4":null,"cvss_v3":null,"cwes":["CWE-189"],"references":["http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214","http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html","http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-security/2007-January/004218.html","http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-03-11-2006.html","http://secunia.com/advisories/22736"],"products":["freebsd:freebsd"],"source":"nvd","synced_at":"2026-10-19T19:43:14.363260067+00:00"},"epss":{"cve":"CVE-2006-5679","score":0.01019,"percentile":0.63384,"date":"2026-10-31"},"kev":null,"osv":[],"attribution":["This product uses the NVD API but is not endorsed or certified by the NVD.","EPSS scores: FIRST Exploit Prediction Scoring System, https://www.first.org/epss","Known exploited vulnerabilities: CISA Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","Package advisories: OSV (https://osv.dev), from the GitHub Advisory Database, PyPA, Go, RustSec and other ecosystem databases, under CC-BY 4.0 or CC0","CVE records: the CVE Program's CVE List (https://www.cve.org), under its terms of use (https://www.cve.org/Legal/TermsOfUse). CVE is a registered trademark of The MITRE Corporation; this product is not affiliated with the CVE Program."]}