CVE-2005-2627

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2005-08-19 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Multiple integer underflows in Kismet before 2005-08-R1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) kernel headers in a pcap file or (2) data frame dissection, which leads to heap-based buffer overflows.

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.securityfocus.com/bid/14430
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1422
http://secunia.com/advisories/16447
http://secunia.com/advisories/16477

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