CVE-2009-0052: Atheros AR9160-BC1A Chipset

Medium severity, CVSS 5.5. EPSS: 1.1% chance of exploitation in the next 30 days.

The Atheros wireless driver, as used in Netgear WNDAP330 Wi-Fi access point with firmware 2.1.11 and other versions before 3.0.3 on the Atheros AR9160-BC1A chipset, and other products, allows remote authenticated users to cause a denial of service (device reboot or hang) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a truncated reserved management frame.

Affected products

  • Atheros AR9160-BC1A Chipset
  • NETGEAR WNDAP330 Firmware: version 2.1.11 only

Published 2009-11-12. Last modified 2026-06-16.