National Cyber-Alert System
Vulnerability Summary for CVE-2006-6332
Original release date:12/10/2006
Last revised:09/05/2008
Source:
US-CERT/NIST
Overview
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.
Impact
CVSS Severity (version 2.0):
Impact Subscore:
6.4
Exploitability Subscore:
10.0
CVSS Version 2 Metrics:
Access Vector: Network exploitable
Access Complexity: Low
Authentication: Not required to exploit
Impact Type:Allows unauthorized disclosure of information; Allows unauthorized modification; Allows disruption of service
- 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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US-CERT Vulnerability Note: VU#925529
Name: VU#925529
External Source: BID
Name: 21486
Type: Patch Information
External Source: MISC
Name: http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842
Type: Patch Information
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23277
Type: Advisory
External Source: CONFIRM
Name: http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue
External Source: XF
Name: madwifi-giwscan-encode-bo(30800)
External Source: UBUNTU
Name: USN-404-1
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SA:2006:074
External Source: SUSE
Name: SUSE-SR:2006:028
External Source: VUPEN
Name: ADV-2006-4901
External Source: GENTOO
Name: GLSA-200612-09
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23694
External Source: SECUNIA
Name: 23335
External Source: MLIST
Name: [Dailydave] 20061208 Madwifi SIOCSIWSCAN vulnerability (CVE-2006-6332)