Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng Authentication Packet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

BID:23467

Info

Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng Authentication Packet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Bugtraq ID: 23467
Class: Boundary Condition Error
CVE: CVE-2007-2057
Remote: Yes
Local: No
Published: Apr 12 2007 12:00AM
Updated: Apr 30 2007 04:30PM
Credit: Jonathan So is credited with the discovery of this issue.
Vulnerable: Debian Linux 4.0 sparc
Debian Linux 4.0 s/390
Debian Linux 4.0 powerpc
Debian Linux 4.0 mipsel
Debian Linux 4.0 mips
Debian Linux 4.0 m68k
Debian Linux 4.0 ia-64
Debian Linux 4.0 ia-32
Debian Linux 4.0 hppa
Debian Linux 4.0 arm
Debian Linux 4.0 amd64
Debian Linux 4.0 alpha
Debian Linux 4.0
Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng 0.6.2
Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng 0.7
Not Vulnerable:

Discussion

Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng Authentication Packet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng is prone to a remote buffer-overflow because the application fails to bounds-check user-supplied data before copying it into an insufficiently sized buffer.

Only applications running with '-w or --write' parameters are vulnerable to this issue.

An attacker could exploit this issue to execute arbitrary code within the context of the affected application. Failed exploit attempts will result in a denial of service.

Airodump-ng 0.7 is vulnerable to this issue; other versions may also be vulnerable.

Exploit / POC

Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng Authentication Packet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

The following exploit code is available:

Solution / Fix

Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng Authentication Packet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

Solution:
The vendor addressed this issue in SVN. Please see the references for more information.


Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng 0.6.2

References

Aircrack-ng Airodump-ng Authentication Packet Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

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