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>> Madwifi Driver "giwscan_cb()" and "encode_ie()" Remote Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
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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
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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.
Credits
Vulnerability reported by Laurent BUTTI, Jérome RAZNIEWSKI, and Julien TINNES (France Telecom).
ChangeLog
2006-12-08 : Initial release
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