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MadWifi Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Secunia Advisory: SA23277
Release Date: 2006-12-08
Last Update: 2006-12-11
Popularity: 8,265 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: System access
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

Software:MadWifi 0.x

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CVE reference:CVE-2006-6332


Description:
Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski, and Julien Tinnes have reported a vulnerability in MadWifi, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error and can be exploited to cause a buffer overflow, which allows execution of arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.9.2.1.

Solution:
Update to version 0.9.2.1.

Provided and/or discovered by:
The vendor credits Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski, and Julien Tinnes.

Changelog:
2006-12-11: Added CERT reference.

Original Advisory:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207...0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue
http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842

Other References:
CERT VU#925529
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529


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