CVE-2006-7178 Information

Description

MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly handle reception of an AUTH frame by an IBSS node which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain AUTH frame.

Reference

http://madwifi.org/ticket/880 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Releases/0.9.3 http://secunia.com/advisories/24670 http://secunia.com/advisories/24841 http://secunia.com/advisories/24931 http://secunia.com/advisories/25861 http://secunia.com/advisories/26083 http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200704-15.xml 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/23431 http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 http://www.vupen.com/english/advisories/2007/1187