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Red Hat Linux Broadcom 5820 Cryptonet Driver Integer Overflow
Secunia Advisory: SA11936
Release Date: 2004-06-24
Last Update: 2004-12-03
Popularity: 12,475 views

Critical:
Less critical
Impact: Privilege escalation
DoS
Where: Local system
Solution Status: Unpatched

OS:Red Hat Linux 8.0

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Description:
infamous41md has reported a vulnerability in the Broadcom 5820 Cryptonet driver included with Red Hat Linux. This can potentially be exploited by malicious, local users to cause a DoS (Denial of Service) or gain escalated privileges.

The vulnerability is caused due to an integer overflow within the "ubsec_ioctl()" function when setting up an encryption key. The problem is that an amount of memory is allocated based on a user controlled value, which may result in a large amount of data being copied into an insufficiently sized buffer.

The affected driver is included in Red Hat Linux 8, but may also be present in other versions.

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