Gentoo: 200704-15 Normal: MadWifi Driver DoS Threats Identified
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April 18, 2007
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MadWifi driver, possibly leading to a Denial of Service and information disclosure.
Summary
Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-15
https://security.gentoo.org/
Severity: Normal
Title: MadWifi: Multiple vulnerabilities
Date: April 17, 2007
Bugs: #173434
ID: 200704-15
Synopsis
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Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MadWifi driver,
possibly leading to a Denial of Service and information disclosure.
Background
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The MadWifi driver provides support for Atheros based IEEE 802.11
Wireless Lan cards.
Affected packages
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1 net-wireless/madwifi-ng < 0.9.3 >= 0.9.3
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The driver does not properly process Channel Switch Announcement
Information Elements, allowing for an abnormal channel chang...
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