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<glsa id="200704-15">
<title>MadWifi: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
<synopsis>
Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in the MadWifi driver,
possibly leading to a Denial of Service and information disclosure.
</synopsis>
<product type="ebuild">Madwifi-ng</product>
<announced>2007-04-17</announced>
<revised count="02">2007-04-21</revised>
<bug>173434</bug>
<access>remote</access>
<affected>
<package name="net-wireless/madwifi-ng" auto="yes" arch="*">
<unaffected range="ge">0.9.3</unaffected>
<vulnerable range="lt">0.9.3</vulnerable>
</package>
</affected>
<background>
<p>
The MadWifi driver provides support for Atheros based IEEE 802.11
Wireless Lan cards.
</p>
</background>
<description>
<p>
The driver does not properly process Channel Switch Announcement
Information Elements, allowing for an abnormal channel change. The
ieee80211_input() function does not properly handle AUTH frames and the
driver sends unencrypted packets before WPA authentication succeeds.
</p>
</description>
<impact type="normal">
<p>
A remote attacker could send specially crafted AUTH frames to the
vulnerable host, resulting in a Denial of Service by crashing the
kernel. A remote attacker could gain access to sensitive information
about network architecture by sniffing unencrypted packets. A remote
attacker could also send a Channel Switch Count less than or equal to
one to trigger a channel change, resulting in a communication loss and
a Denial of Service.
</p>
</impact>
<workaround>
<p>
There is no known workaround at this time.
</p>
</workaround>
<resolution>
<p>
All MadWifi users should upgrade to the latest version:
</p>
<code>
# emerge --sync
# emerge --ask --oneshot --verbose "&gt;=net-wireless/madwifi-ng-0.9.3"</code>
</resolution>
<references>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7178">CVE-2006-7178</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7179">CVE-2006-7179</uri>
<uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-7180">CVE-2006-7180</uri>
</references>
<metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-04-11T12:32:14Z">
p-y
</metadata>
<metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-04-11T18:16:05Z">
p-y
</metadata>
</glsa>