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Gentoo: GLSA 200704-16 High: Aircrack-ng Remote Execution Risk

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Calendar Grey April 22, 2007
Dist Gentoo Esm H88
Gentoo GLSA 202104-20 covers a critical vulnerability in OpenSSL, resulting in significant security risks.
Aircrack-ng contains a buffer overflow that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.

Summary

Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200704-16 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Aircrack-ng: Remote execution of arbitrary code Date: April 22, 2007 Bugs: #174340 ID: 200704-16

Synopsis ======= Aircrack-ng contains a buffer overflow that could lead to the remote execution of arbitrary code with root privileges.
Background ========= Aircrack-ng is an 802.11 WEP and WPA-PSK keys cracking program that can recover keys once enough data packets have been captured.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 net-wireless/aircrack-ng < 0.7-r2 >= 0.7-r2
========== Jonathan So reported that the airodump-ng module does not correctly check the size of 8...

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