CVE-2006-7178: Madwifi

High severity, CVSS 7.8. EPSS: 2.6% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

MadWifi before 0.9.3 does not properly handle reception of an AUTH frame by an IBSS node, which allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (system crash) via a certain AUTH frame.

Affected products

• Madwifi Madwifi: up to and including 0.9.2; up to and including 0.9.2.1

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