CVE-2006-7180 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2006-7180
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Description: ieee80211_output.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3 sends unencrypted packets before WPA authentication succeeds, which allows remote attackers to obtain sensitive information (related to network structure), and possibly cause a denial of sevice (disrupted authentication) and conduct spoofing attacks.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/33514 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA25861 Secunia Advisory: SA24931 Secunia Advisory: SA24841 Secunia Advisory: SA24670 Secunia Advisory: SA26083 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/wiki/Releases/0.9.3 http://madwifi.org/ticket/967 BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded BID 23434

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