Wow! Lots of kernel flaws...
Gilbert Sebenste
sebenste at weather.admin.niu.edu
Wed Nov 22 21:19:20 UTC 2006
Hello Arjan,
>> Stack-based buffer overflow in A5AGU.SYS 1.0.1.41 for the D-Link DWL-G132
>> wireless adapter allows remote attackers to execute arbitrary code via a
>> 802.11 beacon request with a long Rates information element (IE).
>
> this is a WINDOWS driver!
Whoops! My bad. My cut 'n' paste didn't work well here.
> the rest is basically the known set of "if you get enough power to have
> a fully malformed filesystem the kernel oopses" category.. not that
> urgent..
> (should be fixed at some point of course like any kernel crash. But to
> consider them as serious security issue... you could classify every
> kernel oops as security that way)
True. But one of them, the ext3, looked more serious. OK, I'll hold off on
the bugzilla.
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