Vulnerability CVE-2009-0282
Published: 2009-01-27   Modified: 2012-02-13

Description:
Integer overflow in Ralink Technology USB wireless adapter (RT73) 3.08 for Windows, and other wireless card drivers including rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, and rt61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Probe Request packet with a long SSID, possibly related to an integer signedness error.

See advisories in our WLB2 database:
Topic
Author
Date
High
Ralinktech wireless cards drivers vulnerability
springsec
29.01.2009

Type:

CWE-189

 (Numeric Errors)

CVSS2 => (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C)

CVSS Base Score
Impact Subscore
Exploitability Subscore
9.3/10
10/10
8.6/10
Exploit range
Attack complexity
Authentication
Remote
Medium
No required
Confidentiality impact
Integrity impact
Availability impact
Complete
Complete
Complete
Affected software
Ralinktech -> RT73 

 References:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512995
http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-08.xml
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1712
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1713
http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1714
http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500168/100/0/threaded
http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33340
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