Out-of-Bounds Affecting aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng package, versions [,1.1)


Severity

Recommended
0.0
medium
0
10

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Threat Intelligence

EPSS
21.15% (97th percentile)

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  • Snyk IDSNYK-UNMANAGED-AIRCRACKNGAIRCRACKNG-2365447
  • published26 Jan 2022
  • disclosed28 Oct 2013
  • creditUnknown

Introduced: 28 Oct 2013

CVE-2010-1159  (opens in a new tab)
CWE-119  (opens in a new tab)

How to fix?

Upgrade aircrack-ng/aircrack-ng to version 1.1 or higher.

Overview

Affected versions of this package are vulnerable to Out-of-Bounds. Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Aircrack-ng before 1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a (1) large length value in an EAPOL packet or (2) long EAPOL packet.

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