Ubuntu Security Notices
USN-404-1

USN-404-1: MadWifi vulnerability

Publication date

9 January 2007

Overview

MadWifi vulnerability

Releases

6.10

Details

Laurent Butti, Jerome Razniewski, and Julien Tinnes discovered that the
MadWifi wireless driver did not correctly check packet contents when
receiving scan replies. A remote attacker could send a specially
crafted packet and execute arbitrary code with root privileges.

Update instructions

After a standard system upgrade you need to reboot your computer to effect the necessary changes.

Learn more about how to get the fixes.

The problem can be corrected by updating your system to the following package versions:

Ubuntu Release	Package Version
6.10 edgy	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-powerpc64-smp – 2.6.17.7-10.1
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-386 – 2.6.17.7-10.1
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-sparc64-smp – 2.6.17.7-10.1
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-sparc64 – 2.6.17.7-10.1
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-powerpc – 2.6.17.7-10.1
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-generic – 2.6.17.7-10.1
	linux-restricted-modules-2.6.17-10-powerpc-smp – 2.6.17.7-10.1

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References

CVE-2006-6332

CVE-2006-6332