CVE-2009-0282
HIGH · CVSS 9.3EPSS 5.8%EU EUVD
Integer overflow in Ralink Technology USB wireless adapter (RT73) 3.08 for Windows, and other wireless card drivers including rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, and rt61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Probe Request packet with a long SSID, possibly related to an integer signedness error.
Key facts
- CVSS score
- 9.3 (v2.0)
- Severity
- HIGH
- CVSS vector
AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C- Weakness (CWE)
- CWE-189
- EPSS score
- 5.8% (93th percentile)
- In CISA KEV
- No
- In EU EUVD
- Yes (EUVD-2009-0287)
- Published
- January 27, 2009
- NVD last modified
- June 16, 2026
- Status
- Modified
EU Vulnerability Database (EUVD)
This vulnerability is also tracked by ENISA as EUVD-2009-0287 in the EU Vulnerability Database. Last updated in EUVD on August 7, 2024.
View on the EU Vulnerability DatabaseAffected products
- microsoft / windows 2000
- ralinktech / rt73
References
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512995
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33592(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33699(Vendor Advisory)
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35743(Vendor Advisory)
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-08.xml
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1712
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1713
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1714
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500168/100/0/threaded
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33340
Last updated September 17, 2026 · Source: NVD, CISA KEV, FIRST.org EPSS
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