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CVE-2006-0226
Integer overflow in IEEE 802.11 network subsystem (ieee80211_ioctl.c) in FreeBSD before 6.0-STABLE, while scanning for wireless networks,…
- 10.0HighCVSS base score
- 5.8%Exploitation in 30 daysEPSS · top 6.8% of all CVEs
- NoKnown exploitednot in CISA's KEV catalog
- NonePublic exploitsnone known yet
Description
Integer overflow in IEEE 802.11 network subsystem (ieee80211_ioctl.c) in FreeBSD before 6.0-STABLE, while scanning for wireless networks, allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code by broadcasting crafted (1) beacon or (2) probe response frames.
Timeline
ID reserved
By freebsd
- 2 days later
· 2 days later
Published
- 19 years later
· 19 years later
Record updated
Changes after publication (a new score, a public exploit, EPSS crossing 1, 10 or 50 %, leaving KEV) are kept since November 2026; earlier ones are not known.
Scores
| Scored by | CVSS | Score | Vector |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVDNVD · Modified | 2.0 | High10.0 | AV:N/AC:L/Au:N/C:C/I:C/A:C |
- EPSS (exploitation in 30 days)
- 5.8% · top 6.8% of all CVEs (11 Nov 2026)
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The list uses the assigner's score when there is one, then CISA's, then NVD's: High 10.0.
Affected products
n/a
- affected n/a
References
References8
- 1015518 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_SECTRACKx_transferred
- http://kernelwars.blogspot.com/2007/01/alive.html (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- http://www.blackhat.com/html/bh-europe-07/bh-eu-07-speakers.html#Eriksson (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- bsd-ieee80211-bo(24192) (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_XFx_transferred
- http://www.signedness.org/advisories/sps-0x1.txt (opens in a new tab)x_refsource_MISCx_transferred
- 22537 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_OSVDBx_transferred
- 16296 (opens in a new tab)vdb-entryx_refsource_BIDx_transferred
- 18353 (opens in a new tab)third-party-advisoryx_refsource_SECUNIAx_transferred
Sources
The same CVE in the primary databases and aggregators, to check against.
- CVE.org record (opens in a new tab)
- CVE List JSON (GitHub) (opens in a new tab)
- NVD (opens in a new tab)
- FIRST EPSS (opens in a new tab)
- EUVD EUVD-2006-0234 (opens in a new tab)
- OSV.dev (opens in a new tab)
- GitHub Advisories (opens in a new tab)
- CIRCL Vulnerability-Lookup (opens in a new tab)
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[](https://cveledger.app/cve/CVE-2006-0226)Record last updated .