CVEvulnerability

CVE-2006-7177

7.8 HIGH Published 2007-03-30 Modified 2026-06-16 Official page ↗
Status
Modified
Published
2007-03-30
Last modified
2026-06-16
Assigner
[email protected]
CVSS 2.0 ([email protected])
7.8 HIGH — AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Description

MadWifi, when Ad-Hoc mode is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors that lead to a kernel panic in the ieee80211_input function, related to "packets coming from a 'malicious' WinXP system."

Affected configurations

• madwifi madwifi 0.9.2

References