PT-2007-1455 · Sam Leffler · Madwifi

Published 2007-03-30 · Updated 2018-10-16 · CVE-2006-7177

Positive Technologies (AI Summary)

CVSS v2.0

7.8

High

Base vector

AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C

Name of the Vulnerable Software and Affected Versions MadWifi (affected versions not specified)

Description The issue allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service, resulting in a system crash via unspecified vectors. This is related to packets coming from a 'malicious' system and leads to a kernel panic in the ieee80211 input function.

Recommendations At the moment, there is no information about a newer version that contains a fix for this vulnerability.

Related Identifiers

CVE-2006-7177

Affected Products

Madwifi

References · 10

• http://ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 · Vendor Advisory
• http://novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html · Vendor Advisory
• http://mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082 · Vendor Advisory
• https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7177 · Security Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/24841 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/25861 · Note
• http://securityfocus.com/bid/23433 · Note
• http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 · Note
• http://madwifi.org/ticket/880 · Note