CVE-2005-2627: Kismet

High severity, CVSS 7.5. EPSS: 4.7% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Multiple integer underflows in Kismet before 2005-08-R1 allow remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via (1) kernel headers in a pcap file or (2) data frame dissection, which leads to heap-based buffer overflows.

Affected products

• Kismet Kismet: version 2.4.5 only; version 2.4.6 only; version 2.6.0 only; version 2.8.0 only; version 2.8.0a only; version 2.8.1 only; …

Published 2005-08-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.