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TITLE:
Mandriva update for madwifi-source

SECUNIA ADVISORY ID:
SA24841

VERIFY ADVISORY:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24841/

CRITICAL:
Moderately critical

IMPACT:
Exposure of sensitive information, DoS

WHERE:
>From remote

OPERATING SYSTEM:
Mandriva Linux 2007
http://secunia.com/product/12165/

DESCRIPTION:
Mandriva has issued an update for madwifi-source. This fixes some
vulnerabilities, which can be exploited by malicious people to gain
knowledge of potentially sensitive information or cause a DoS (Denial
of Service).

For more information:
SA24670

Note: wpa_supplicant is built using madwifi-source and has been
rebuilt using version 0.9.3.

SOLUTION:
Apply updated packages.

-- Mandriva Linux 2007 --

d7cbe028e271f0f8d774905558e74fdc 
2007.0/i586/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
904a90761313b1cc56d6a0ff0d477ad7  
2007.0/i586/wpa_gui-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm
052bfcc81003cc8b6656434e4611a521 
2007.0/i586/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.i586.rpm 
aaec8f2686274bd944a2a0932180a91d 
2007.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
8b9dad3443aab464e3f32bdf6e5e4ab6 
2007.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

-- Mandriva Linux 2007/X86_64 --

d7cbe028e271f0f8d774905558e74fdc 
2007.0/x86_64/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.noarch.rpm
286aebce2515abdf2ce786d568ca561a 
2007.0/x86_64/wpa_gui-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm
b65aa19f1f3f3e54fe1417e01efa0618 
2007.0/x86_64/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.x86_64.rpm 
aaec8f2686274bd944a2a0932180a91d 
2007.0/SRPMS/madwifi-source-0.9.3-1.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm
8b9dad3443aab464e3f32bdf6e5e4ab6 
2007.0/SRPMS/wpa_supplicant-0.5.5-2.1mdv2007.0.src.rpm

ORIGINAL ADVISORY:
http://www.mandriva.com/security/advisories?name=MDKSA-2007:082

OTHER REFERENCES:
SA24670:
http://secunia.com/advisories/24670/

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