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<glsa id="200508-10">
  <title>Kismet: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Kismet is vulnerable to multiple issues potentially resulting in the
    execution of arbitrary code.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">Kismet</product>
  <announced>August 19, 2005</announced>
  <revised>May 22, 2006: 02</revised>
  <bug>102702</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-wireless/kismet" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">2005.08.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">2005.08.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    Kismet is an 802.11 Layer 2 wireless network detector, sniffer, and
    intrusion detection system.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Kismet is vulnerable to a heap overflow when handling pcap captures and
    to an integer underflow in the CDP protocol dissector.
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    With a specially crafted packet an attacker could cause Kismet to
    execute arbitrary code with the rights of the user running the program.
    </p>
  </impact>
  <workaround>
    <p>
    There is no known workaround at this time.
    </p>
  </workaround>
  <resolution>
    <p>
    All Kismet users should upgrade to the latest version:
    </p>
    <code>
    # emerge --sync
    # emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose &quot;&gt;=net-wireless/kismet-2005.08.1&quot;</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="http://www.kismetwireless.net/blog/?entry=/kismet/entry-1124158146.txt">Kismet Release Notes</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2626">CVE-2005-2626</uri>
    <uri link="http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2005-2627">CVE-2005-2627</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="Wed, 17 Aug 2005 05:08:47 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 05:16:35 +0000">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="Thu, 18 Aug 2005 07:53:07 +0000">
    adir
  </metadata>
</glsa>