CVE-2003-0947: Wireless Tools Project Wireless Tools

High severity, CVSS 7.2. EPSS: 1.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Buffer overflow in iwconfig, when installed setuid, allows local users to execute arbitrary code via a long OUT environment variable.

Affected products

• Wireless Tools Project Wireless Tools: version 19 only; version 20 only; version 21 only; version 22 only; version 23 only; version 24 only; …

Published 2003-12-15. Last modified 2026-06-16.