CVE-2006-0226: Freebsd

High severity, CVSS 10.0. EPSS: 5.8% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

Integer overflow in IEEE 802.11 network subsystem (ieee80211_ioctl.c) in FreeBSD before 6.0-STABLE, while scanning for wireless networks, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by broadcasting crafted (1) beacon or (2) probe response frames.

Affected products

• Freebsd Freebsd: version 6.0 only

Published 2006-01-19. Last modified 2026-06-16.