CVEvulnerability
CVE-2006-6332
7.5 HIGH
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- Status
- Modified
- Published
- 2006-12-10
- Last modified
- 2026-06-16
- Assigner
- [email protected]
- CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
- 7.5 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P
Description
Stack-based buffer overflow in net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c in MadWifi before 0.9.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to the encode_ie and giwscan_cb functions.
Affected configurations
• madwifi madwifi 0.9.2.1
References
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html lists.immunitysec.com
- http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842 Patch
- http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue madwifi.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23277 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23694 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529 US Government Resource
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html www.novell.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4901 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30800 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html lists.immunitysec.com
- http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842 Patch
- http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue madwifi.org
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23277 Vendor Advisory
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23335 secunia.com
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23694 secunia.com
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml security.gentoo.org
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529 US Government Resource
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html www.novell.com
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html www.novell.com
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486 Patch
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1 www.ubuntu.com
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4901 www.vupen.com
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30800 exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com