CVE-2006-7179 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures

Upstream information

CVE-2006-7179 at MITRE

Description

ieee80211_input.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly process Channel Switch Announcement Information Elements (CSA IEs), which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (loss of communication) via a Channel Switch Count less than or equal to one, triggering a channel change.

SUSE information

Overall state of this security issue: Resolved

This issue is currently rated as having important severity.

CVSS v2 Scores
	National Vulnerability Database
Base Score	7.8
Vector	AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:N/I:N/A:C
Access Vector	Network
Access Complexity	Low
Authentication	None
Confidentiality Impact	None
Integrity Impact	None
Availability Impact	Complete

SUSE Bugzilla entry: 263783 [RESOLVED / FIXED]

SUSE Security Advisories:

SUSE-SR:2007:014, published Fri, 20 Jul 2007 12:00:00 +0000

SUSE Timeline for this CVE

CVE page created: Fri Jun 28 05:22:59 2013
CVE page last modified: Fri Dec 8 16:18:59 2023