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CVE-2005-2626

• Severity: critical (CVSS 10.0 v2.0)
• Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
• EPSS: 3.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
• Public exploit or detection template: none known
• Published: 2005-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Unspecified vulnerability in Kismet before 2005-08-R1 allows remote attackers to have an unknown impact via unprintable characters in the SSID.

Affected products

• Kismet: 2.4.5, 2.4.6, 2.6.0, 2.8.0, 2.8.0a, 2.8.1 (+10)

References

• http://secunia.com/advisories/16447
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16477
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16634
• http://www.debian.org/security/2005/dsa-788
• http://www.gentoo.org/security/en/glsa/glsa-200508-10.xml
• http://www.kismetwireless.net/CHANGELOG
• http://www.kismetwireless.net/blog/?entry=/kismet/entry-1124158146.txt
• http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2005_20_sr.html
• http://www.osvdb.org/18767
• http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/14430
• http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1422
• http://secunia.com/advisories/16447

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