CVE-2006-5601

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.0 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 4.2% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2006-10-28 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-119

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in the eap_do_notify function in eap.c in xsupplicant before 1.2.6, and possibly other versions, allows remote authenticated users to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors.

Affected products

Xsupplicant: through 1.2.5; 0.5, 0.6, 0.7, 0.8, 0.8b, 1.0 (+9)

References

http://open1x.cvs.sourceforge.net/open1x/xsupplicant/src/eap.c?r1=1.135&r2=1.136
http://secunia.com/advisories/22612
http://secunia.com/advisories/22641
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:189
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_01_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/20775
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4233
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/29902
http://open1x.cvs.sourceforge.net/open1x/xsupplicant/src/eap.c?r1=1.135&r2=1.136
http://secunia.com/advisories/22612
http://secunia.com/advisories/22641
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2006:189

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