National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2007-6025
Original release date:11/19/2007
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
Stack-based buffer overflow in driver_wext.c in wpa_supplicant 0.6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) via crafted TSF data.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.9
Exploitability Subscore:
8.6
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Medium
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows disruption of serviceUnknown
- Official Statement from Red Hat (11/20/2007)
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Not vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of wpa_supplicant as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 and 5.
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External Source: MISC
Name: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=292991
Type: Patch Information
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=442387
External Source: BID
Name: 26555
External Source: MANDRIVA
Name: MDKSA-2007:245