National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-7178
Original release date:03/30/2007
Last revised:11/15/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly handle reception of an AUTH frame by an IBSS node, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain AUTH frame.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (04/17/2007)
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Not vulnerable. The MadWiFi wireless driver is not shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.
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External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3
Type: Patch Information
External Source: BUGTRAQ
Name: 20070423 FLEA-2007-0012-1: madwifi
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://madwifi.org/ticket/880
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-479-1
External Source: BID
Name: 23431
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2007:014
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:082
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2007-1187
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200704-15
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 26083
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 25861
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24931
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24841
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 24670