CVE & CISA-KEV CatalogNVD
CVE-2006-6332
HIGHEPSS 97th pctl7.5
CVSS v2
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.
CVSS v2 Vector
No CVSS vector data available.
Exploit Intelligence
19.68%probability of exploitation in 30 days
97thpercentile
Very high risk: more likely to be exploited than 97% of all known CVEs.
References
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html
- http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842
- http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23277
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23694
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4901
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30800
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