NVD
- Id
- 40168
- Name
- CVE-2013-4579
- Description
- The ath9k_htc_set_bssid_mask function in drivers/net/wireless/ath/ath9k/htc_drv_main.c in the Linux kernel through 3.12 uses a BSSID masking approach to determine the set of MAC addresses on which a Wi-Fi device is listening, which allows remote attackers to discover the original MAC address after spoofing by sending a series of packets to MAC addresses with certain bit manipulations.
- Reject
- CVSS Version
- 2
- CVSS Score
- 4.3
- Severity
- Medium
- CVSS Base Score
- 4.3
- CVSS Impact Subscore
- 2.9
- CVSS Exploit Subscore
- 8.6
- CVSS Vector
- (AV:N/AC:M/Au:N/C:P/I:N/A:N)
- Pub Date
- 2017-01-18
- Published
- 2013-11-20
- Modified Date
- 2014-03-16
- Seq
- 2013-4579