CVE-2017-20161

Summary

CVECVE-2017-20161
StatePUBLIC
Assigner[email protected]
Source PriorityCVE Program / NVD first with legacy fallback
Published2023-01-02 16:15:00 UTC
Updated2023-11-07 02:43:00 UTC
DescriptionA vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in rofl0r MacGeiger. Affected is the function dump_wlan_at of the file macgeiger.c of the component ESSID Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The name of the patch is 57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217188.

Risk And Classification

Problem Types: CWE-74

NVD Known Affected Configurations (CPE 2.3)

TypeVendorProductVersionUpdateEditionLanguage
Application Macgeiger Project Macgeiger All All All All

References

ReferenceSourceLinkTags
CVE-2017-20161 | rofl0r MacGeiger ESSID macgeiger.c dump_wlan_at injection MISC vuldb.com
CVE-2017-20161 | rofl0r MacGeiger ESSID macgeiger.c dump_wlan_at injection MISC vuldb.com
sanitize displayed essids · rofl0r/MacGeiger@57f1dd5 · GitHub MISC github.com
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