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>> Kismet Multiple Integer Underflow and Unspecified Vulnerabilities

Title : Kismet Multiple Integer Underflow and Unspecified Vulnerabilities
VUPEN ID : VUPEN/ADV-2005-1422
CVE ID : CVE-2005-2626 - CVE-2005-2627
CWE ID : CWE-
Rated as : High Risk 
Remotely Exploitable : Yes
Locally Exploitable : Yes
Release Date : 2005-08-16

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Multiple vulnerabilities were identified in Kismet, which could be exploited by remote attackers to execute arbitrary commands or cause a denial of service.

The first flaw is due to an error in the handling of unprintable characters in the SSID (the impact of this issue is currently unknown).

The second issue is due to integer underflow errors in the pcap handling, which could be exploited to cause heap corruption [...]

References

http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2005/1422
http://www.kismetwireless.net/blog/?entry=/kismet/entry-1124158146.txt
http://www.kismetwireless.net/CHANGELOG

Credits

Vulnerability reported by Stefan Esser and the vendor

ChangeLog

2005-08-16 : Initial release

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