Gentoo GLSA-202312-05: Critical Audacious Remote Code Execution Issue
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December 10, 2006
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
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MadWifi is vulnerable to a buffer overflow that could potentially lead
to the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background
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MadWifi (Multiband Atheros Driver for Wireless Fidelity) provides a
Linux kernel device driver for Atheros-based Wireless LAN devices.
Affected packages
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Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected
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1 net-wireless/madwifi-ng < 0.9.2.1 >= 0.9.2.1
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Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski and Julien Tinnes reported a buffer
over...
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