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CVE-2006-0226

This CVE name corresponds to:

Entered Topic
2006-02-14 IEEE 802.11 -- buffer overflow

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Details

Type Candidate
Name CVE-2006-0226
Phase Assigned(20060117)

Description

Integer overflow in IEEE 802.11 network subsystem (ieee80211_ioctl.c) in FreeBSD before 6.0-STABLE, while scanning for wireless networks, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by broadcasting crafted (1) beacon or (2) probe response frames.

References

Source Reference
MISC http://www.signedness.org/advisories/sps-0x1.txt
MISC http://kernelwars.blogspot.com/2007/01/alive.html
MISC http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-07/bh-eu-07-speakers.html#Eriksson
FREEBSD FreeBSD-SA-06:05
BID 16296
OSVDB 22537
SECTRACK 1015518
SECUNIA 18353
XF bsd-ieee80211-bo(24192)