01 Record
CVE-2006-6332
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
UnratedPUBLISHEDCNA: mitre
CNA base scoreUnratedNo CNA CVSS vector
02 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
03 Exploitation and scoring
- Exploitation
- Not assessed. CISA has not published an exploitation assessment for this record, and it is not in the KEV catalog. That is an absence of assessment, not a finding of no risk.
- SSVC decision
- Not assessed by CISA
- EPSS probability
- 20.30% probability of exploitation activity in the next 30 days.
- EPSS percentile
- Equal to or higher than the score of 97.3% of scored records. A rank, not a probability.
- NVD base score
- The NVD has published no score for this record
- NVD CVSS vector
- No NVD score to derive
- NVD analysis status
- Modified. NVD last modified this record on 2026-06-16.
- Red Hat severity
- No Red Hat rating. Red Hat rates the CVEs that affect its products.
Exploit-prediction scores from FIRST. Independent scoring and analysis status from the NVD. Vendor severity from Red Hat. Exploitation assessment and catalog membership from CISA.
04 Metadata
- Published
- 2006-12-10 11:00Z19 YR AGO
- Last updated
- 2024-08-07 20:19Z2 YR AGO
- Reserved
- 2006-12-06
- Assigning CNA
- mitre
- Record state
- PUBLISHED
- Severity
- Not rated by the issuing CNA
- CNA CVSS vector
- Not published by the issuing CNA
- Weaknesses
- No CWE assigned
- Data version
- 5.1
- Document digest
- 9dcd827597cbdde94243eb3b1b7bb9a5c92f623630c69311c226edfe188e9da6
05 Affected products
VendorProductVersionsPlatforms
06 References
- www.novell.comSUSE-SA:2006:074http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html
- www.securityfocus.com21486http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486
- madwifi.orghttp://madwifi.org/changeset/1842
- www.novell.comSUSE-SR:2006:028http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
- security.gentoo.orgGLSA-200612-09http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml
- secunia.com23335http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
- secunia.com23277http://secunia.com/advisories/23277
- madwifi.orghttp://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue
- www.kb.cert.orgVU#925529http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529
- www.vupen.comADV-2006-4901http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4901
- www.ubuntu.comUSN-404-1http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1
- exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.commadwifi-giwscan-encode-bo(30800)https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30800
- secunia.com23694http://secunia.com/advisories/23694
- lists.immunitysec.com[Dailydave] 20061208 Madwifi SIOCSIWSCAN vulnerability (CVE-2006-6332)http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html