CVE-2009-0282

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Summary

CVECVE-2009-0282
StatePUBLISHED
Assignermitre
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2009-01-27 18:30:00 UTC
Updated2026-04-23 00:35:47 UTC
DescriptionInteger overflow in Ralink Technology USB wireless adapter (RT73) 3.08 for Windows, and other wireless card drivers including rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, and rt61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Probe Request packet with a long SSID, possibly related to an integer signedness error.

Risk And Classification

Primary CVSS: v2.0 9.3 from [email protected]

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Problem Types: CWE-189 | n/a

CVSS v2.0 Breakdown

Access Vector
Network
Access Complexity
Medium
Authentication
None
Confidentiality
Complete
Integrity
Complete
Availability
Complete

AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Operating System Microsoft Windows 2000 - All All All
Hardware Ralinktech Rt73 3.08 All All All

Vendor Declared Affected Products

SourceVendorProductVersionPlatforms
CNA Na N/a affected n/a Not specified

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1713-1 rt2500 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Multiple Ralinktech Wireless Drivers MAC/BSS/SSID Integer Overflow Vulnerability af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
SecurityFocus af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.securityfocus.com
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1712-1 rt2400 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Debian -- Security Information -- DSA-1714-1 rt2570 af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 www.debian.org
Gentoo Linux Documentation -- Multiple Ralink wireless drivers: Execution of arbitrary code af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 security.gentoo.org
Debian update for rt2400, rt2500, and rt2570 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Intelligence - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Ralink Wireless Drivers Probe Request Processing Vulnerability - Advisories - Community af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
Gentoo Ralink Wireless Drivers Probe Request Processing Vulnerability - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information - Secunia.com af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 secunia.com Vendor Advisory
#512995 - Possible security flaw in ad-hoc probe request processing - Debian Bug report logs af854a3a-2127-422b-91ae-364da2661108 bugs.debian.org
CVE Program record CVE.ORG www.cve.org canonical
NVD vulnerability detail NVD nvd.nist.gov canonical, analysis

Vendor Comments And Credit

OrganizationPublishedContributorStatement
Red Hat2009-02-02Mark J CoxNot vulnerable. This issue did not affect the versions of the Linux kernel as shipped with Red Hat Enterprise Linux 2.1, 3, 4, 5, and Red Hat Enterprise MRG.

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