CVE-2006-7178 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-7178
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Description: MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly handle reception of an AUTH frame by an IBSS node, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain AUTH frame.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA26083 Secunia Advisory: SA25861 Secunia Advisory: SA24931 Secunia Advisory: SA24670 Secunia Advisory: SA24841 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-15.xml CONFIRM http://madwifi.org/ticket/880 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded BID 23431

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