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hostapd: insufficient boundary checks

Package(s):

hostapd

CVE #(s):

CVE-2006-2213

Created:

May 22, 2006

Updated:

May 25, 2006

Description:

Matteo Rosi and Leonardo Maccari discovered that hostapd, a wifi network authenticator daemon, performs insufficient boundary checks on a key length value, which might be exploited to crash the service.

Alerts:

Mandriva	MDKSA-2006:088	2006-05-24
Debian	DSA-1065-1	2006-05-19

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