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Secunia Advisory SA23051

NetGear WG311v1 Wireless Driver Long SSID Buffer Overflow

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SA23051

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Release Date

2006-11-23

Last Update

2007-02-12

Popularity

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Criticality level

Moderately critical

Impact

System access

Where

From remote

Authentication level

Available in Customer Area

Report reliability

Available in Customer Area

Solution Status

Vendor Workaround

3rd party PoC/exploit

Link available in Customer Area

Systems affected

Available in Customer Area

Approve distribution

Available in Customer Area

Software:

NetGear WG311v1 Wireless Driver 1.x

Secunia CVSS Score

Available in Customer Area

CVE Reference(s)

No CVE references.

Description

Laurent Butti has reported a vulnerability in NetGear WG311v1 Wireless driver, which can be exploited by malicious people to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error in the WG311ND5.SYS device driver when handling long SSIDs. This can be exploited to cause a heap-based buffer overflow via a specially crafted packet.

Successful exploitation may allow execution of arbitrary code.

The vulnerability is reported in version 2.3.1.10 of WG311ND5.SYS included in the WG311v1 Driver version 1.3 package. Other versions may also be affected.

Solution
The vendor has provided a beta release version.
Further details available in Customer Area

Provided and/or discovered by
Laurent Butti

Changelog
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Original Advisory
http://projects.info-pull.com/mokb/MOKB-22-11-2006.html

Other references
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