gentoo-overlay/metadata/glsa/glsa-200706-04.xml

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<!DOCTYPE glsa SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/glsa.dtd">
<glsa id="200706-04">
  <title>MadWifi: Multiple vulnerabilities</title>
  <synopsis>
    Multiple vulnerabilities have been discovered in MadWifi, possibly allowing
    for the execution of arbitrary code or a Denial of Service.
  </synopsis>
  <product type="ebuild">madwifi-ng</product>
  <announced>2007-06-11</announced>
  <revised count="01">2007-06-11</revised>
  <bug>179532</bug>
  <access>remote</access>
  <affected>
    <package name="net-wireless/madwifi-ng" auto="yes" arch="*">
      <unaffected range="ge">0.9.3.1</unaffected>
      <vulnerable range="lt">0.9.3.1</vulnerable>
    </package>
  </affected>
  <background>
    <p>
    The MadWifi driver provides support for Atheros based IEEE 802.11
    Wireless Lan cards.
    </p>
  </background>
  <description>
    <p>
    Md Sohail Ahmad from AirTight Networks has discovered a divison by zero
    in the ath_beacon_config() function (CVE-2007-2830). The vendor has
    corrected an input validation error in the
    ieee80211_ioctl_getwmmparams() and ieee80211_ioctl_getwmmparams()
    functions(CVE-207-2831), and an input sanitization error when parsing
    nested 802.3 Ethernet frame lengths (CVE-2007-2829).
    </p>
  </description>
  <impact type="high">
    <p>
    An attacker could send specially crafted packets to a vulnerable host
    to exploit one of these vulnerabilities, possibly resulting in the
    execution of arbitrary code with root privileges, or 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-0.9.3.1"</code>
  </resolution>
  <references>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2829">CVE-2007-2829</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2830">CVE-2007-2830</uri>
    <uri link="https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2007-2831">CVE-2007-2831</uri>
  </references>
  <metadata tag="requester" timestamp="2007-06-08T06:19:00Z">
    jaervosz
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="submitter" timestamp="2007-06-10T14:16:00Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
  <metadata tag="bugReady" timestamp="2007-06-10T14:16:10Z">
    p-y
  </metadata>
</glsa>