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Severity: High
Title: Kismet: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: August 19, 2005
Bugs: #102702
ID: 200508-10

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Synopsis
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Kismet is vulnerable to multiple issues potentially resulting in the
execution of arbitrary code.

Background
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Kismet is an 802.11 Layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and
intrusion detection system.

Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-wireless/kismet < 2005.08.1 >= 2005.08.1

Description
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Kismet is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling pcap captures and
to an integer underflow in the CDP protocol dissector.

Impact
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With a specially crafted packet an attacker could cause Kismet to
execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the program.

Workaround
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There is no known workaround at this time.

Resolution
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All Kismet users should upgrade to the latest version:

# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose ">=net-wireless/kismet-2005.08.1"

References
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[ 1 ] Kismet Release Notes
http://www.kismetwireless.net/blog/?entry=/kismet/entry-1124158146.txt

Availability
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This GLSA and any updates to it are available for viewing at
the Gentoo Security Website:

http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200508-10.xml

Concerns?
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Security is a primary focus of Gentoo Linux and ensuring the
confidentiality and security of our users machines is of utmost
importance to us. Any security concerns should be addressed to
security (at) gentoo (dot) org [email concealed] or alternatively, you may file a bug at
http://bugs.gentoo.org.

License
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Copyright 2005 Gentoo Foundation, Inc; referenced text
belongs to its owner(s).

The contents of this document are licensed under the
Creative Commons - Attribution / Share Alike license.

http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0

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