CVE-2006-6127 - Vulnerability Details - OpenCVE

Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.

No CVSS v4.0

No CVSS v3.1

No CVSS v3.0

Access Vector Local

Access Complexity Low

Authentication None

Confidentiality Impact None

Integrity Impact None

Availability Impact Partial

This CVE is not in the KEV list.

The EPSS score is 0.00516.

Key SSVC decision points have not yet been added.

Vendors	Products
Apple	Mac Os X Mac Os X Server

Configuration 1 [-]

OR	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x:10.4.8:::::::*
	cpe:2.3:o:apple:mac_os_x_server:10.4.8:::::::*

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Advisories

Source	ID	Title
EUVD	EUVD-2006-6110	Apple Mac OS X kernel allows local users to cause a denial of service via a process that uses kevent to register a queue and an event, then fork a child process that uses kevent to register an event for the same queue as the parent.

Fixes

Solution

No solution given by the vendor.

Workaround

No workaround given by the vendor.

References

Link	Providers
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=307041
http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Nov/msg00002.html
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-24-11-2006.html
http://secunia.com/advisories/23114
http://secunia.com/advisories/27643
http://www.osvdb.org/30695
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21285
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/26444
http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-319A.html
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4715
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/3868
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30544

History

Wed, 16 Jul 2025 13:45:00 +0000

Type	Values Removed	Values Added
Metrics	epss `{'score': 0.00496}`	epss `{'score': 0.00516}`

MITRE

Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: mitre

Published: 2006-11-27T00:00:00

Updated: 2024-08-07T20:19:33.959Z

Reserved: 2006-11-26T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2006-6127

Vulnrichment

No data.

NVD

Status : Deferred

Published: 2006-11-27T00:07:00.000

Modified: 2025-04-09T00:30:58.490

Link: CVE-2006-6127

Redhat

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OpenCVE Enrichment

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