CVE-2006-7178

Severity: high (CVSS 7.8 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 2.7% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2007-03-30 · updated 2026-06-16

Description

MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly handle reception of an AUTH frame by an IBSS node, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain AUTH frame.

Affected products

Madwifi: through 0.9.2; through 0.9.2.1

References

http://madwifi.org/ticket/880
http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3
http://secunia.com/advisories/24670
http://secunia.com/advisories/24841
http://secunia.com/advisories/24931
http://secunia.com/advisories/25861
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-15.xml
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23431

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