# CVE-2009-0282: Integer overflow in Ralink Technology USB wireless adapter (RT73) 3.08 for Windows, and other wireless card drivers including rt2400, rt2500

- Severity: no CVSS score reported
- Known exploited (CISA KEV): no
- Published: 2009-01-27 · Updated: 2024-08-07

## Affected

- n/a: version range not reported

## 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.

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## References

- http://secunia.com/advisories/33592
- http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/500168/100/0/threaded
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1714
- http://www.securityfocus.com/bid/33340
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1712
- http://www.debian.org/security/2009/dsa-1713
- http://secunia.com/advisories/33699
- http://secunia.com/advisories/35743
- http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=512995
- http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200907-08.xml

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