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TITLE:
MadWifi Buffer Overflow Vulnerability

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA23277

VERIFY ADVISORY:
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CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
System access

WHERE:
>From remote

SOFTWARE:
MadWifi 0.x
http://secunia.com/product/12842/

DESCRIPTION:
Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski, and Julien Tinnes have reported a
vulnerability in MadWifi, which can be exploited by malicious people
to compromise a vulnerable system.

The vulnerability is caused due to a boundary error and can be
exploited to cause a buffer overflow, which allows execution of
arbitrary code with kernel privileges.

The vulnerability is reported in versions prior to 0.9.2.1.

SOLUTION:
Update to version 0.9.2.1.

PROVIDED AND/OR DISCOVERED BY:
The vendor credits Laurent Butti, Jerome Raznieski, and Julien
Tinnes.

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://madwifi.org/wiki/news/20061207/release-0-9-2-1-fixes-critical-security-issue
http://madwifi.org/changeset/1842

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