>> Madwifi Driver "giwscan_cb()" and "encode_ie()" Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Title : Madwifi Driver "giwscan_cb()" and "encode_ie()" Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2006-4901 CVE ID : CVE-2006-6332
Rated as : Critical
Remotely Exploitable : Yes Locally Exploitable : Yes Release Date : 2006-12-08
Technical Description
A vulnerability has been identified in MadWifi, which could be exploited by remote attackers to take complete control of an affected system. This flaw is due to buffer overflow errors in the "giwscan_cb()" and "encode_ie()" [net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c] functions when handling malformed beacon or probe response frames and performing a call to ioctl SIOCGIWSCAN, which could be exploited by attackers within range of a vulnerable Wi-Fi station to execute arbitrary commands with elevated privileges.
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