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Mandriva update for madwifi-source
Secunia Advisory: SA24841
Release Date: 2007-04-12
Popularity: 4,516 views

Critical:
Moderately critical
Impact: Exposure of sensitive information
DoS
Where: From remote
Solution Status: Vendor Patch

OS:Mandriva Linux 2007.0

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CVE reference:CVE-2005-4835
CVE-2006-7177
CVE-2006-7178
CVE-2006-7179
CVE-2006-7180


Description:
Mandriva has issued an update for madwifi-source. This fixes some vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain knowledge of potentially sensitive information or cause a DoS (Denial of Service).

For more information:
SA24670

Note: wpa_supplicant is built using madwifi-source and has been rebuilt using version 0.9.3.

Solution:
Apply updated packages.

-- Mandriva Linux 2007 --

d7cbe028e271f0f8d774905558e74fdc 2007.0/i586/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
904a90761313b1cc56d6a0ff0d477ad7
2007.0/i586/wpa_gui-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
052bfcc81003cc8b6656434e4611a521 2007.0/i586/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
aaec8f2686274bd944a2a0932180a91d 2007.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
8b9dad3443aab464e3f32bdf6e5e4ab6 2007.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

-- Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64 --

d7cbe028e271f0f8d774905558e74fdc 2007.0/x86_64/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
286aebce2515abdf2ce786d568ca561a 2007.0/x86_64/wpa_gui-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
b65aa19f1f3f3e54fe1417e01efa0618 2007.0/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
aaec8f2686274bd944a2a0932180a91d 2007.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
8b9dad3443aab464e3f32bdf6e5e4ab6 2007.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

Original Advisory:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082

Other References:
SA24670:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24670/


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