CVE-2006-6332
HIGH · CVSS 7.5EPSS 21.5%EU EUVD
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.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 7.5 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:P/I:P/A:P- EPSS score
- 21.5% (98th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2006-6315)
- Published
- December 10, 2006
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2006-6315 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- madwifi / madwifi
References
- http://lists.immunitysec.com/pipermail/dailydave/2006-December/003888.html
- http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842(Patch)
- http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23277(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23335
- http://secunia.com/advisories/23694
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200612-09.xml
- http://www.kb.cert.org/vuls/id/925529(US Government Resource)
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_28_sr.html
- http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2006_74_madwifi.html
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/21486(Patch)
- http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-404-1
- http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2006/4901
- https://exchange.xforce.ibmcloud.com/vulnerabilities/30800
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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