Debian Security Advisory
DSA-788-1 kismet -- several vulnerabilities
- Date Reported:
- 29 Aug 2005
- Affected Packages:
- kismet
- Vulnerable:
- Yes
- Security database references:
- In Mitre's CVE dictionary: CVE-2005-2626, CVE-2005-2627.
- More information:
-
Several security related problems have been discovered in kismet, a wireless 802.11b monitoring tool. The Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures project identifies the following problems:
- CAN-2005-2626
Insecure handling of unprintable characters in the SSID.
- CAN-2005-2627
Multiple integer underflows could allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code.
The old stable distribution (woody) does not seem to be affected by these problems.
For the stable distribution (sarge) these problems have been fixed in version 2005.04.R1-1sarge1.
For the unstable distribution (sid) these problems have been fixed in version 2005.08.R1-1.
We recommend that you upgrade your kismet package.
- CAN-2005-2626
- Fixed in:
-
Debian GNU/Linux 3.1 (sarge)
- Source:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1.dsc
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1.diff.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1.orig.tar.gz
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1.diff.gz
- Alpha:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_alpha.deb
- ARM:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_arm.deb
- Intel IA-32:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_i386.deb
- Intel IA-64:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_ia64.deb
- HPPA:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_hppa.deb
- Motorola 680x0:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_m68k.deb
- Big endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_mips.deb
- Little endian MIPS:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_mipsel.deb
- PowerPC:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_powerpc.deb
- IBM S/390:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_s390.deb
- Sun Sparc:
- http://security.debian.org/pool/updates/main/k/kismet/kismet_2005.04.R1-1sarge1_sparc.deb
MD5 checksums of the listed files are available in the original advisory.