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CVE-2006-6332 Details

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.

Metrics

CVSS 3.x Severity and Vector Strings:

No CVSS 3.x data is available for this CVE.

References to Advisories, Solutions, and Tools

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URL	Source(s)	Tag(s)
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html	CVE
http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842	CVE	Patch
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23277	CVE	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23335	CVE
http://secunia.com/advisories/23694	CVE
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml	CVE
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30800	CVE
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529	CVE	US Government Resource
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html	CVE
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html	CVE
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486	CVE	Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1	CVE
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4901	CVE
http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html	[email protected]
http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842	[email protected]	Patch
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/23277	[email protected]	Vendor Advisory
http://secunia.com/advisories/23335	[email protected]
http://secunia.com/advisories/23694	[email protected]
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml	[email protected]
https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30800	[email protected]
http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529	[email protected]	US Government Resource
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html	[email protected]
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html	[email protected]
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486	[email protected]	Patch
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1	[email protected]
http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4901	[email protected]

see all 28 references

Weakness Enumeration

CWE-ID	CWE Name	Source
NVD-CWE-Other	Weakness Not in a Standard CWE Category	[email protected]

Affected Products

Product	Versions
madwifi madwifi	0.9.2.1
CPE cpe:2.3:a:madwifi:madwifi:0.9.2.1:::::::* Remediation No remediation found in references.

Change History

6 change records found show changes

Date	Action	Recorded By
Jun 16, 2026	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Apr 23, 2026	Status Change	[email protected]
Nov 21, 2024	CVE Modified	CVE
May 14, 2024	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Jul 29, 2017	CVE Modified	[email protected]
Dec 11, 2006	Initial Analysis	[email protected]