CVE-2010-1159

medium
Published 2013-10-28 ยท Modified 2026-04-29
CVSS v3
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CVSS v4 NEW
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not yet in upstream
VIR risk
7.8

Description

Multiple heap-based buffer overflows in Aircrack-ng before 1.1 allow remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and execute arbitrary code via a (1) large length value in an EAPOL packet or (2) long EAPOL packet.

Predictions

Exploit likelihood
20%
Patch ETA
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Heuristic predictions, AS-IS, for prioritization only.

Mitigations

No mitigations published for this CVE yet.

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Exploits

Public proof-of-concept code below. AS-IS, for defenders and authorised testing only.

Exploit-DB

EDB-12217 dos multiple verified
Lukas Lueg ยท 2010-04-14

Aircrack-NG Tools svn r1675 - Remote Heap Buffer Overflow (PoC)

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OS impact

gentoo Gentoo Affected 1 release
VersionStatusFixed in
โ€” Affected โ€”
debian Debian Fixed 5 releases
VersionStatusFixed in
trixie Fixed 1:1.1-1
sid Fixed 1:1.1-1
forky Fixed 1:1.1-1
bullseye Fixed 1:1.1-1
bookworm Fixed 1:1.1-1

Application impact

VendorProductVersionsFixed
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng{"endIncluding":"1.0"}
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.1
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.2
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.2.1
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.3
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.4
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.4.1
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.4.2
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.4.3
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.4.4
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.5
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.6
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.6.1
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.6.2
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.7
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.8
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.9
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.9.1
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.9.2
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng0.9.3
aircrack-ngaircrack-ng1.0

References

CWEs

CWE-119

Community-verified mitigations for this CVE will appear above when contributors publish them.

Verify integrity in audit chain (admin only). AS-IS.