CVE-2006-7177: Madwifi

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.3% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MadWifi, when Ad-Hoc mode is used, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via unspecified vectors that lead to a kernel panic in the ieee80211_input function, related to "packets coming from a 'malicious' WinXP system."

Affected products

• Madwifi Madwifi: version 0.9.2 only

Published 2007-03-30. Last modified 2026-06-16.