{"id":"CVE-2006-6061","url":"https://www.cyber-defence.io/tools/cve/CVE-2006-6061","generatedAt":"2026-10-27T17:38:00.858Z","title":"com.apple.AppleDiskImageController in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed DMG image that triggers memory corruption.","description":"com.apple.AppleDiskImageController in Apple Mac OS X 10.4.8, and possibly other versions, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a malformed DMG image that triggers memory corruption.  NOTE: the severity of this issue has been disputed by a third party, who states that the impact is limited to a denial of service (kernel panic) due to a vm_fault call with a non-aligned address.","published":"2006-11-22T01:07:00.000Z","lastModified":"2026-06-16T22:32:23.000Z","status":"Modified","sourceIdentifier":"cve@mitre.org","cvss":{"version":"2.0","score":9.3,"severity":"HIGH","vector":"AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C"},"cwe":[],"affected":["apple/mac os x","apple/mac os x server"],"epss":{"score":0.10279,"percentile":0.95662,"date":"2026-10-26","history":[]},"kev":{"listed":false},"exploits":{"count":0,"verified":false,"firstPublished":null,"source":"Exploit-DB (https://gitlab.com/exploit-database/exploitdb)","entries":[]},"verdict":{"level":"urgent","text":"EPSS puts the probability of exploitation in the next 30 days at 10.3%, higher than 96% of all known CVEs. Patch or mitigate before the next change window."},"changes":[{"kind":"epss","label":"EPSS jump","at":"2026-10-20T00:00:00.000Z","detail":{"to":0.10279,"from":0.09689,"percentile":0.95663},"summary":"EPSS moved from 9.7% to 10.3% probability of exploitation in the next thirty days."}],"references":[{"url":"http://alastairs-place.net/2006/11/dmg-vulnerability/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://kernelfun.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-mokb-20-11-2006-related-news.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-20-11-2006.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/23012","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/24479","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1017260","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/367424","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.matasano.com/log/633/alastair-houghton-debunks-lmh-mokb-finding/","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/30509","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21201","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4629","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30440","source":"cve@mitre.org"},{"url":"http://alastairs-place.net/2006/11/dmg-vulnerability/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=305214","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://kernelfun.blogspot.com/2006/11/more-mokb-20-11-2006-related-news.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://lists.apple.com/archives/security-announce/2007/Mar/msg00002.html","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-20-11-2006.html","tags":["Exploit","Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/23012","tags":["Vendor Advisory"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://secunia.com/advisories/24479","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://securitytracker.com/id?1017260","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/367424","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.matasano.com/log/633/alastair-houghton-debunks-lmh-mokb-finding/","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.osvdb.org/30509","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21201","tags":["Exploit"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.securitytracker.com/id?1017751","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.us-cert.gov/cas/techalerts/TA07-072A.html","tags":["US Government Resource"],"source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4629","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/0930","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"},{"url":"https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30440","source":"af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108"}],"sources":{"nvd":"https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-6061","epss":"https://www.first.org/epss/","kev":"https://www.cisa.gov/known-exploited-vulnerabilities-catalog","exploitdb":"https://www.exploit-db.com/"},"licence":"CC BY 4.0 — link back to the CVE Explorer if you publish the results; upstream data remains subject to its own terms."}