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Debian DSA-1280-1 : aircrack-ng - buffer overflow

critical Nessus Plugin ID 25097

Synopsis

The remote Debian host is missing a security-related update.

Description

It was discovered that aircrack-ng, a WEP/WPA security analysis tool, performs insufficient validation of 802.11 authentication packets, which allows the execution of arbitrary code.

The oldstable distribution (sarge) doesn't contain aircrack-ng packages.

Solution

Upgrade the aircrack-ng packages. Packages for the arm, sparc, mips and mipsel architectures are not yet available. They will be provided later.

For the stable distribution (etch) this problem has been fixed in version 0.6.2-7etch1.

See Also

https://www.debian.org/security/2007/dsa-1280

Plugin Details

Severity: Critical

ID: 25097

File Name: debian_DSA-1280.nasl

Version: 1.15

Type: local

Agent: unix

Published: 4/30/2007

Updated: 1/4/2021

Supported Sensors: Agentless Assessment, Frictionless Assessment Agent, Nessus Agent, Nessus

Risk Information

VPR

Risk Factor: Medium

Score: 6.7

CVSS v2

Risk Factor: Critical

Base Score: 10

Temporal Score: 7.8

Vector: CVSS2#AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C

Vulnerability Information

CPE: p-cpe:/a:debian:debian_linux:aircrack-ng, cpe:/o:debian:debian_linux:4.0

Required KB Items: Host/local_checks_enabled, Host/Debian/release, Host/Debian/dpkg-l

Exploit Available: true

Exploit Ease: Exploits are available

Patch Publication Date: 4/24/2007

Reference Information

CVE: CVE-2007-2057

DSA: 1280