CVE-2007-2831 - Secunia Advisories - Vulnerability Information

CVE Reference: CVE-2007-2831
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Description: Array index error in the (1) ieee80211_ioctl_getwmmparams and (2) ieee80211_ioctl_setwmmparams functions in net80211/ieee80211_wireless.c in MadWifi before 0.9.3.1 allows local users to cause a denial of service (system crash), possibly obtain kernel memory contents, and possibly execute arbitrary code via a large negative array index value.

CVE Status: Candidate

References: XF http://xforce.iss.net/xforce/xfdb/34453 UBUNTU http://www.ubuntu.com/usn/usn-479-1 SUSE http://www.novell.com/linux/security/advisories/2007_14_sr.html SAID Secunia Advisory: SA26083 Secunia Advisory: SA25861 Secunia Advisory: SA25339 Secunia Advisory: SA25763 Secunia Advisory: SA25622 MANDRIVA http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:132 GENTOO http://security.gentoo.org/glsa/glsa-200706-04.xml CONFIRM http://madwifi.org/ticket/1334 http://madwifi.org/wiki/Security BUGTRAQ http://www.securityfocus.com/archive/1/archive/1/470674/100/100/threaded BID 24114

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