Description
Integer overflow in Ralink Technology USB wireless adapter (RT73) 3.08 for Windows, and other wireless card drivers including rt2400, rt2500, rt2570, and rt61, allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (crash) and possibly execute arbitrary code via a Probe Request packet with a long SSID, possibly related to an integer signedness error.
Fixed in Linux distributions
Distributions backport fixes, so the version that fixes this vulnerability differs per release — upgrade to at least the version shown. From the distributions' security trackers and advisories.
Debian
Security tracker ↗| Release | Package | Fixed in | Advisory |
|---|---|---|---|
| Debian 4.0 | rt2400 | 1.2.2+cvs20060620-4+etch1 | DSA-1712-1 |
| Debian 4.0 | rt2500 +1 | 1.1.0+cvs20060620-3+etch1 | DSA-1714-1, DSA-1713-1 |
Advisories 3
- DSA-1712-1 rt2400 - arbitrary code execution Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
- DSA-1714-1 rt2570 - arbitrary code execution Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
- DSA-1713-1 rt2500 - arbitrary code execution Debian Security (DSA / DLA) · Mar 9, 2026
References
- 33592 third-party-advisory
- 20090118 Ralinktech wireless cards drivers vulnerability mailing-list
- DSA-1714 vendor-advisory
- 33340 vdb-entry
- DSA-1712 vendor-advisory
- DSA-1713 vendor-advisory
- 33699 third-party-advisory
- 35743 third-party-advisory
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512995
- GLSA-200907-08 vendor-advisory