CVE-2006-7177 Information

Description

MadWifi when Ad-Hoc mode is used allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors that lead to a kernel panic in the ieee80211_input function related to \packets coming from a ‘malicious’ WinXP system.\

Reference

http://madwifi.org/ticket/880 http://secunia.com/advisories/24841 http://secunia.com/advisories/25861 http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082 http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23433 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1