CVE-2006-7177 - 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."

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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."

Published Mar 30, 2007

7.8

HIGH

CVSS 2.0

EPSS 2.33%

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."

Affected products

Remediation

Red Hat statement

Not vulnerable. The MadWiFi wireless driver is not shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, or 5.

Weaknesses (0)

No CWE recorded.

References (12)

http://madwifi.org/ticket/880
x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/24841
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25861
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083
third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded
mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23433
vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1
vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7177
Vendor Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7177
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7177

Link	Providers	Tags
http://madwifi.org/ticket/880		x_refsource_MISC
http://secunia.com/advisories/24841		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/25861		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://secunia.com/advisories/26083		third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIA
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_MANDRIVA
http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_SUSE
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/466689/30/6900/threaded		mailing-listx_refsource_BUGTRAQ
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/23433		vdb-entryx_refsource_BID
http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1		vendor-advisoryx_refsource_UBUNTU
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2006-7177		Vendor Advisory
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2006-7177
https://www.cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2006-7177

Change history (0)

No recorded changes yet.

Sources

CVE.org / MITRE

Status PUBLISHED

Assigner mitre

Published Mar 30, 2007

Updated Aug 7, 2024

Reserved Mar 29, 2007

Link CVE-2006-7177

CISA Vulnrichment

Updated n/a

NVD

Status Modified

Modified Jun 16, 2026

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Red Hat

Severity n/a

Public date n/a

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