Vulnerability in Madwifi
CVE-2006-7177
MadWifi, when Ad-Hoc mode is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors that lead to a kernel panic in the ieee80211_input function, related to "packets coming from a 'malicious' WinXP system."
Published · last modified .
CVSS v2 metric
CVSS v2 base score 7.8 (High). Vector: AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C. This CVE predates CVSS v3 and has no v3 score from NVD.
EPSS exploit prediction
EPSS: 0.023 (82.9th percentile), scored .
Low probability of exploitation in the next 30 days, but still tracked. 83rd percentile — 82.9% of CVEs in the catalogue have a lower EPSS than this one. How to read EPSS.
EPSS over last 30 days · oldest: 0.023 · newest: 0.023 · change: 0.000
Affected products
- Madwifi — versions 0.9.2
References
- www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 (vendor-advisory)
- www.mandriva.com/security/advisories (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/26083 (third-party-advisory)
- www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html (vendor-advisory)
- secunia.com/advisories/24841 (third-party-advisory)
- www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded (mailing-list)
- www.securityfocus.com/bid/23433 (vdb-entry)
- secunia.com/advisories/25861 (third-party-advisory)
- madwifi.org/ticket/880