CVE-2006-6332

Severity: high (CVSS 7.5 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 20.3% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: yes
Published: 2006-12-10 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

Stack-based buffer overflow in net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c in MadWifi before 0.9.2.1 allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via unspecified vectors, related to the encode_ie and giwscan_cb functions.

Affected products

Madwifi: 0.9.2.1

References

http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html
http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue
http://secunia.com/advisories/23277
http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
http://secunia.com/advisories/23694
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1

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