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Gentoo GLSA-202312-05: Critical Audacious Remote Code Execution Issue

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Calendar Grey December 10, 2006
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
The MadWifi driver on Gentoo contains a vulnerability that could enable unauthorized remote code execution via a buffer overflow. Upgrading is recommended to enhance security
MadWifi is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could potentially lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200612-09 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: MadWifi: Kernel driver buffer overflow Date: December 10, 2006 Bugs: #157449 ID: 200612-09

Synopsis ======= MadWifi is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could potentially lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background ========= MadWifi (Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity) provides a Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-wireless/madwifi-ng < 0.9.2.1 >= 0.9.2.1
========== Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski and Julien Tinnes reported a buffer over...

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