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Gentoo: 200907-08 High: Ralink Drivers Arbitrary Code Execution

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Calendar Grey July 12, 2009
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Critical alert for Gentoo users regarding Ralink drivers vulnerability; potential integer overflow risk could allow for unauthorized code execution.
An integer overflow in multiple Ralink wireless drivers might lead to the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.

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Gentoo Linux Security Advisory GLSA 200907-08 https://security.gentoo.org/ Severity: High Title: Multiple Ralink wireless drivers: Execution of arbitrary code Date: July 12, 2009 Bugs: #257023 ID: 200907-08

Synopsis ======= An integer overflow in multiple Ralink wireless drivers might lead to the execution of arbitrary code with elevated privileges.
Background ========= All listed packages are external kernel modules that provide driversfor multiple Ralink devices. ralink-rt61 is released by ralinktech.com, the other packages by the rt2x00.serialmonkey.com project.
Affected packages ================ ------------------------------------------------------------------- Package / Vulnerable / Unaffected ------------------------------------------------------------------- 1 rt2400 = 1.2.2_beta3 Vulnerab...

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