CVE-2009-0282

Severity: critical (CVSS 9.3 v2.0)
Exploited in the wild: not listed in CISA KEV
EPSS: 5.8% probability of exploitation in the next 30 days
Public exploit or detection template: none known
Published: 2009-01-27 · updated 2026-06-16
Weakness: CWE-189

Description

Integer overflow in Ralink Technology USB wireless adapter (RT73) 3.08 for Windows, and other wireless card drivers including rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, and rt61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Probe Request packet with a long SSID, possibly related to an integer signedness error.

Affected products

Ralinktech Rt73: 3.08

References

http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512995
http://secunia.com/advisories/33592
http://secunia.com/advisories/33699
http://secunia.com/advisories/35743
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-08.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1712
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1713
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1714
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500168/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33340
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512995
http://secunia.com/advisories/33592

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