CVE-2017-20161

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Source

https://cve.org/CVERecord?id=CVE-2017-20161

Import Source

https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-20161.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/CVE-2017-20161

Published

2023-01-02T16:15:10.530Z

Modified

2026-04-11T04:38:03.388804Z

Severity

7.8 (High) CVSS_V3 - CVSS:3.1/AV:L/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:H/A:H CVSS Calculator

Summary

[none]

Details

A vulnerability classified as problematic has been found in rofl0r MacGeiger. Affected is the function dumpwlanat of the file macgeiger.c of the component ESSID Handler. The manipulation leads to injection. Access to the local network is required for this attack to succeed. The complexity of an attack is rather high. The exploitability is told to be difficult. The name of the patch is 57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb. It is recommended to apply a patch to fix this issue. The identifier of this vulnerability is VDB-217188.

References

Affected packages

Git / github.com/rofl0r/macgeiger

Affected ranges

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/rofl0r/macgeiger
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Fixed

57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb

Type: GIT
Repo: https://github.com/rofl0r/macgeiger
Events: Introduced

0 Unknown introduced commit / All previous commits are affected

Fixed

57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb

Affected versions

v0.*

v0.0.1

Database specific

vanir_signatures

[
    {
        "digest": {
            "threshold": 0.9,
            "line_hashes": [
                "252641680534549985069504161332029581212",
                "325197459082971047596226102695596988268",
                "248810289534859961371614249945511241695",
                "178362343819481236429520809641041028228",
                "222969891467137609787049135996689999300",
                "290520742972986999783488680122815469564",
                "91995422302719444143957237031159883297",
                "4186977045115584827391494007453071096",
                "321128291150535574189535440416582629807"
            ]
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "macgeiger.c"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-20161-9f625416",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Line",
        "source": "https://github.com/rofl0r/macgeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb"
    },
    {
        "digest": {
            "length": 1955.0,
            "function_hash": "330448564492266687323642881668587991969"
        },
        "target": {
            "file": "macgeiger.c",
            "function": "dump_wlan_at"
        },
        "id": "CVE-2017-20161-ba351d1d",
        "signature_version": "v1",
        "deprecated": false,
        "signature_type": "Function",
        "source": "https://github.com/rofl0r/macgeiger/commit/57f1dd50a4821b8c8e676e8020006ae4bfd3c9cb"
    }
]

unresolved_ranges

[
    {
        "events": [
            {
                "introduced": "0"
            },
            {
                "fixed": "2017-12-02"
            }
        ]
    }
]

vanir_signatures_modified

"2026-04-11T04:38:03Z"

source

"https://storage.googleapis.com/cve-osv-conversion/osv-output/CVE-2017-20161.json"